China has broken ground on what it says will be the world's largest hydropower project, a $170  billion feat capable of ...

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

China blew up the last temporary wall between the Three Gorges Dam and the Yangtze River on Tuesday, using enough explosives to bring down 400 10-story buildings, state media reported.

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 ...

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 ...

A Warning Comes At a Sept. 25 meeting, top officials in charge of the Three Gorges Project warned that without preventive measures, the dam could cause an ecological catastrophe.

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 ...