By building a gigantic dam just before the river exits Chinese-controlled territory, Beijing gains the power to manipulate ...

When I travel, I have the opportunity to see nature’s beauty and wonder. I feel insignificant compared to what nature can create. However, I have been in awe of formidable man-made structures as well, ...

The project on a river that runs through Tibet and India downstream could dwarf the Three Gorges Dam when completed.

Glide over the Three Gorges Dam in China, the largest hydroelectric dam in the world, with stunning drone footage capturing ...

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 ...

China’s Three Gorges Dam, the world’s biggest and most controversial hydropower structure, was rumored to have been cracking and splitting as people posted satellite images of the structure ...

The dam’s operator, China Three Gorges Corporation, told China’s state news agency Xinhua that the dam has intercepted 18.2 billion cubic meters of potential floodwater.

China’s Three Gorges Dam Project was launched in 1993 with a $27.69 billion budget. While the Three Gorges construction finished in late 2008, its final six additional turbines in the ...

“The Three Gorges Dam will have positive and negative impacts, but the positive impact will prevail,” said Yuan Goulin, vice president of the China Three Gorges Project Corp.

In ten years China has built the biggest ever hydroelectric dam and started an even more elaborate and expensive scheme to divert freshwater across 1,000 miles. On these two controversial projects ...

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 ...