NASA reports that the construction and operation of China's Three Gorges Dam have slightly slowed Earth's rotation by 0.06 microseconds. This effect is due to the redistribution of water mass ...

The Three Gorges Dam in China is often praised as a marvel of modern engineering, but according to NASA, this colossal ...

Tibet's earthquake of magnitude 6.8 that killed 126 and damaged four water reservoirs this week highlights the risks from a hydropower building spree by Asian giants China and India in one of the ...

The megaproject will also divert the flow of the Yarlung river through India and Bangladesh, potentially triggering flash ...

One of the largest and most remarkable human-made structures in the world, China’s Three Gorges Dam, has achieved feats far beyond energy production. This colossal dam, built on the Yangtze ...

That would be triple the capacity of the Three Gorges Dam ... Even if the Motuo dam is built well enough to withstand an earthquake, the landslides and mudflows resulting from quakes are difficult ...

China's ambitious plan to build the world's largest hydropower dam on the Brahmaputra River has ignited controversy, raising ...

Tibet project estimated at 60GW would be nearly three times the size of China's Three Gorges Dam ... India and Bangladesh because the dam site is in an earthquake fault zone, experts say.

China’s Three Gorges Dam is one of the world's largest, standing over 600 feet tall and extending for nearly 8,000 feet. The dam is so massive, it’s reputed to have slowed the Earth’s rotation.

BEIJING — Tibet's earthquake of magnitude 6.8 that killed ... The project, more than three times the size of the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest, is set to provide 34 gigawatts of clean ...