On Dec. 25, Beijing announced it would build a dam on Tibet’s longest river, which Beijing calls the Yarlung Zangbo.

Notably, the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River is so big that American space agency NASA claimed it affected Earth's ...

Estimated $137-billion hydroelectric project, which would be three times larger than China's Three Gorges Dam, has raised ...

The dam will be built on a river in Tibet called the Yarlung Tsangpo, with construction carried out by the government-owned Power Construction Corporation of China. It will not only be one of China's ...

If constructed, the structure will be the world's largest hydropower dam. China's plan to build a mega dam on the Brahmaputra could make the entire ecosystem that depends on the river fragile ...

The Three Gorges Dam – the current largest dam in the world – is set to be overtaken (Picture: Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock) China has approved plans to build the world’s biggest dam set to ...

China's ambitions in hydroelectric energy were evident as early as 2008 when the Three Gorges Dam, the world's biggest dam, was completed. Power generation began in 2012 and currently supplies ...

That would more than triple the 88.2 billion kWh designed capacity of the Three Gorges Dam, currently the world’s largest, in central China. The project will play a major role in meeting China ...

When ready, the power plant will generate three times as much energy as the one over Three Gorges Dam, currently the world's largest hydropower project. With its eye on the 2060 deadline to achieve ...