The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, a 1.1-mile-long concrete colossus, is set to become the largest hydropower plant in Africa. Across Ethiopia, poor farmers and rich business executives alike ...

The construction of the dams, built in the 1990s to supply water to South Africa, has had major effects on local populations. Some farmers have been compensated for the loss of their land as a ...

Roughly 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa lack ... like the Inga Dam. He points to the UK's Mersey Tidal Project - which if successful would be the world's largest tidal barrier.

CHINA recently approved the construction of the world’s largest hydropower dam, across the Yarlung Tsangpo ... Something similar is happening in Africa, where studies focus on climate change ...