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 ...

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 ...

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 video shows the Yacyretá Dam in South America, not the Three Gorges Dam in China. This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our fact-checking work here .

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 ...

BEIJING—Two months of unusually powerful rains in central and southern China have swelled the Yangtze River, triggering the worst flooding in decades and raising concerns about the Three Gorges ...

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.

The Three Gorges dam isn't anchored on either end, because the banks are relatively soft. If it were concave, there would be a lot of force trying to spread it's "legs" into the embankment with ...

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.