China’s Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River. The announced cost is $137 billion. The Economist calls the new dam “the world’s most expensive infrastructure project.” And perhaps it is ...

China's ambitious plan to build the world's largest hydropower dam on the Brahmaputra River has ignited controversy, raising ...

The dam will be built on a river in Tibet called the Yarlung Tsangpo, with construction carried out by the government-owned Power Construction Corporation of China. It will not only be one of China's ...

His oversized works, whose subjects include quarries in Vermont, shipyards in China and oil refineries in Canada, have a sense of grandiosity and monumentality. There is an initial visual appeal of ...

which can all compromise dam integrity,” he said. The Yarlung Zangbo River flows from China to India and Bangladesh while merging with other rivers to become the Brahmaputra, which has led the ...

The Yellow River, which stretches from the Tibetan Plateau to the Bohai Sea in China, is so called because of the color lent by massive amounts of suspended sediments along its 5,400-kilometer length.

The dam will be built close to China’s border with India. The Yarlung Zangbo, known outside China as the Yarlung Tsangpo, becomes the Brahmaputra when it flows into India’s Arunachal Pradesh. The ...

China’s Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River. The announced cost is $137 billion. The Economist calls the new dam “the world’s most expensive infrastructure project.” And perhaps it is ...