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The Three Gorges Dam could be dethroned as the king of hydropower dams if the planned Yarlung Zangbao dam is built with three times the installed capacity.
With their ability to build dams across streams, beavers are like architects who can restructure the surrounding ecosystem.
For a long time, fish has become an indispensable dish on the dining table of every family in China.
Construction began in 1994 and was completed in 2012. The Three Gorges Dam brought many economic benefits but also received much criticism for its impact on the surround…
In the early morning of March 13, 1928, one of the greatest engineering disasters in American history occurred in California.
China is building an unprecedented dam system along its longest river.
A research team from the University of Science and Technology of China has come up with a battery design that could be applied to Mars exploration.
A 300-year-old relic has just suddenly appeared in the middle of a dam in the Philippines after months of severe drought.
31 days of continuous heavy rain pushed China into disaster when the lives of 14 million people were affected.
In 1941, thousands of people died in Huaraz (Peru) when the natural dam on the lake above the city broke. Now, melting glaciers are increasing the risk of that happening…
Over the past 40 years, humans have altered the world's largest rivers at an unprecedented rate.
Biologists are trying to find a way to save the humpback shark, a primitive fish that lives in the Colorado River (USA), from the danger of extinction due to predators f…
Chinese researchers are using artificial intelligence to turn a dam project in Qinghai province into the world's largest 3D printer.
The European Space Agency (ESA) on March 18 released an image of Lake Nasser, one of the largest man-made lakes in the world, of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite.
To build the entire earth and rock dam of the Mesopotamian super-hydroelectricity, it takes 20,000 tons of explosives, equivalent to an atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.