Explore the Three Gorges Dam, the world’s most powerful dam, which has a reservoir so massive it even affects the Earth’s rotation. This video delves into its construction process, the reason ...

Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydropower project ever built. When construction began in 1994, it was designed not only to generate electricity to propel China’s breakneck economic growth, but ...

File Photo by Zou Mou/EPA-EFE Aug. 20 (UPI) -- Fear is growing again in China the Three Gorges Dam could be breached as rivers across the country continue to overflow and rise to record levels.

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 ...

A thick layer of garbage washed into the Three Gorges reservoir by torrential rains could jam a key floodgate on the world's biggest dam. See a slideshow of the scene.