China is reportedly pressing ahead with a massive hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet, a move that ...

Thousands of miles from China’s populous coastline, a sharp bend in a remote Himalayan river is set to become the centerpiece of one of the country’s most ambitious – and controversial – ...

India and China’s Brahmaputra dam race is fuelling an energy–data rivalry, turning the Himalayas into a flashpoint of Asia’s ...

The Chinese Communist Party has long thrived on secrecy, and 2024 was no different. As the year was ending, it became clear that Chinese President Xi Jinping’s regime is pressing ahead with a ...

On Dec. 25, Beijing announced it would build a dam on Tibet’s longest river, which Beijing calls the Yarlung Zangbo. The project, which will generate an estimated 300 billion kilowatt hours of ...

KIO and KIA say public opposition to hydropower project stronger than ever, amid earthquake risk, environmental destruction and mass displacement.

The junta wants to revive the long-suspended hydropower project in Kachin State despite a welter of humanitarian and environmental concerns—as a sop to its main backer China.

The dam was designed to control floods, generate power, and showcase engineering strength. Instead, it became a textbook ...

Chinese energy developments in 2025 portend not just changes in the world's largest energy market, but in international ...

PARONG, India (Reuters) -India fears a planned Chinese mega-dam in Tibet will reduce water flows on a major river by up to 85% during the dry season, according to four sources familiar with the matter ...

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 electricity, ...