Today, there are over 30,000 dams in the world. Most of them are created according to standard projects and are designed to help the population with agriculture. But one of them is completely unique ...

The massive economic stimulus and boost to clean power from a 1.2 trillion yuan ($167 billion) mega-dam in Tibet has proven ...

China starts world’s biggest dam on Yarlung Zangbo in Tibet. $170 bn project sparks concern in India, Bangladesh over ...

Jonathan Spence article reviews work on huge Three Gorges Dam project, which is to tame mighty Yangtze River and end floods that have devastated China for centuries; 40,000 workers are now ...

Commentator Lisa See's novel Dragon Bones is set in the area being flooded by the massive Three Gorges Dam in China. She says that the dam is not just an engineering project -- it is potentially a ...

To the Editor: "Dispute Over a Dam on the Scenic Yangtze" (Science Times, Jan. 21), on Chinese Government plans to construct the world's largest hydroelectric dam at Three Gorges, points out that ...