older dams upriver from Three Gorges overflow or fail, then the pressure on the main dam could quickly overwhelm either its capacity or even its structural integrity. While an outright failure of ...

the Three Gorges Dam is showing signs of deformation, sparking fears about its long-term stability. As one of the largest engineering projects ever built, any structural failure could have ...

After hailing the huge Three Gorges Dam for years as a major national achievement, the Chinese government has admitted for the first time that the project could be a disastrous failure with ...

Everything about the Three Gorges dam is huge, including the number of people it has affected. The reservoir created by the dam has already displaced more than a million people. Another 80,000 are ...

On June 1, after a decade of construction, China began to fill the reservoir for the controversial Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze ... As in Iraq, the failure of law enforcement has resulted ...

The Three Gorges Dam stretches for a mile and a half across ... capsize during its launch in an embarrassing military failure. Everest Performance Enhancer: A group of British men went from ...

Experts contacted by New Scientist agree, saying a catastrophic failure is unlikely ... concrete structure of the dam, says one expert who has visited the Three Gorges project.

Dams often attract significant national and international controversies, yet few dams would come as close as China's Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydropower project. The massive dam has ...

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 ...

The idea for the Three Gorges Dam isn’t new. It dates back to 1919 when Sun Yat-sen, often called the father of modern China, proposed harnessing the power of the Yangtze River.