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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.
China is building an unprecedented dam system along its longest river.
In the 1940s, experts used a unique relocation method using planes and parachutes to bring beavers to suitable new homes.
Over the past 40 years, humans have altered the world's largest rivers at an unprecedented rate.
The researchers designed a system that generates electricity from trucks traveling on ramps, eliminating the need to build hydroelectric dams.
The disaster of Ban Kieu dam in China in 1975 is one of the horrific dams in the world.
According to experts, the ongoing flood in the East and Southeast China does not affect Vietnam.
With a high economic growth rate and the demand for electricity use, an average of more than 10% per year. To meet the demand of electricity for living and labor, the st…
Hans Albert Einstein laid the foundations for the work of regulating and controlling the flow of Mississippi, the largest river in the United States.
Hydroelectric dams on the mainstream will continue to cause severe damage to agriculture, hydropower, ecology, and downstream life.
The continuous flow of warm water, combined with the impact of hydroelectric dams, has led to a sharp decline in the size of the largest Pacific salmon species and the r…
Recent reports show that the number of large freshwater animal species has decreased by 97% compared to 1970, due to the natural flow of altered rivers and human catchin…
Depending on how we receive it, rainwater may be a gift or a burden.
Dams and reservoirs have significantly reduced the benefits of healthy rivers for humans and nature.