The Medog Hydropower Project faces the risk of structural failure because it is being built on an active seismic zone in southern Tibet that is prone to ear ...

Pakistan is building one of the tallest roller-compacted concrete dams in the world—the Dasu Hydropower Project. Towering 242 meters above the roaring Indus River, this engineering marvel will ...

High above the eastern Himalayas, where some of the world's youngest mountains rise sharply against the Tibetan Plateau, a ...

Some researchers have argued that the enormous weight of water stored behind the dam may have altered stresses on an underlying fault, potentially contributing to what scientists call ...

India fears a planned Chinese mega-dam in Tibet will reduce water flows on a major river by up to 85% during the dry season, ...

On a football field ringed by misty mountains, the air rang with fiery speeches as tribesmen protested a planned mega-dam—India's latest move in its contest with China over Himalayan water. India says ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 11 countries that share the waters of the Nile have competing development priorities too. These states include Ethiopia, Egypt ...

This mega project will redefine the scale of hydroelectric power and triple the capacity of the Three Gorges Dam.

THE World Bank is showing a growing enthusiasm for funding new large dams, especially in Africa. Yet according to a leading ecologist at an organisation part-funded by the bank, this policy threatens ...

India says the proposed new mega-dam could counteract rival China’s building of a likely record-breaking dam upstream in Tibet by stockpiling water and guarding ...