The Three Gorges Dam, a colossal structure spanning the Yangtze River in China's Hubei province, has long been a subject of fascination and scientific inquiry. This engineering marvel, completed ...

The Three Gorges Dam in China is a structure so huge that it controls one of the world's most powerful rivers—and even slightly slows down the Earth’s rotation. It was built to generate ...

News about Three Gorges Dam, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times. Skip to content Skip to site index. Three Gorges Dam ...

"It is as significant as moving the Three Gorges Dam to a geostationary orbit 36,000km (22,370 miles) above the Earth." When complete, the orbiting power station would be expected to produce ...

Tibet project estimated at 60GW would be nearly three times the size of China's Three Gorges Dam, pictured above, which began operating in 2006. Photo: "ThreeGorgesDam-China2009" by Le Grand ...

The project, which will see its components lofted to a geostationary orbit above Earth using super-heavy rockets, has been dubbed "another Three Gorges Dam project above the Earth.". The Three ...

The Three Gorges Dam, spanning the Yangtze River in China, currently holds the world title for installed capacity and annual hydroelectricity generation, producing between 95 and 112 TWh every year.

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 ...

China's Three Gorges Dam, including resettling the 1.3 million people it displaced, cost 254.2 billion yuan ($37.23 billion), the Xinhua news agency said on Monday, several times an original ...

After the Flood. Photoessay on Three Gorges Dam on China's mighty Yangtze River; dam is world's largest in terms of water displacement, flood control and power generation; could restrain summer ...