The hydropower dam, in quake-prone Tibet, is set to be the world’s biggest. But China has said little about the project, ...

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 ...

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 ...

On December 25, the People’s Republic of China approved the construction of the world's largest hydropower dam on the Yarlung Zangbo River in Tibet at a site ne ...

China’s Three Gorges Dam, currently the world’s largest hydroelectric dam, began construction in 1994 and cost around £29 billion over its nine-year build. Situated in Hubei, a central ...

A gigantic hydroelectric project is predicted to provide power for more than 300 million homes when it is completed - but it comes at an eye-watering cost ...

the role played by the massive and controversial Three Gorges Dam - designed to help tame the Yangtze river - has come under fresh scrutiny. Amid some of the heaviest rainfall on record ...

China's ambitious engineers are at it again, not satisfied with the already colossal Three Gorges Dam, which towers at over 600 feet and stretches nearly 8,000 feet wide. This engineering marvel ...

Weeks after announcing plans to construct the world's largest dam, China has now unveiled another ambitious project intending to harness solar power. Calling it "another Three Gorges Dam project ...

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 ...

China’s Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River. The announced cost is $137 billion. The Economist calls the new dam “the world’s most expensive infrastructure project.” And perhaps it is the world’s ...

A leading Chinese scientist has unveiled an ambitious plan to construct solar power stations in space using super-heavy rockets, describing it as "a new Three Gorges Dam above the Earth.