China approved the world's largest hydropower project to begin construction, citing the economic benefits and need to shift ...

This map of the Yangtze River basin shows the major dams and the spawning grounds of the Chinese sturgeon. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases ...

The dam is an engineering colossus—more than ... for her book Yangtze Remembered. "The Yangtze River" Courtesy of Flickr user sullivan_ng. "Yangtze Fall." Courtesy of Flickr user Quiltsalad.

the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in central China. The Yarlung Tsangpo originates in Tibet and flows into India, where it is called the Siang in Arunachal Pradesh. As it moves further ...

In April 1992, China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) formally approved the “Resolution on the Construction of the Yangtze River ... s biggest-ever river dam project.

The solar array isn’t the only plan China has for space research—it also plans to reach the Moon and build an International ...

the role played by the massive and controversial Three Gorges Dam - designed to help tame the Yangtze river - has come under fresh scrutiny. Amid some of the heaviest rainfall on record ...

Dams are a big issue too. More than 50,000 dams have been built in the Yangtze basin since 1950, and more are planned. Dams divert and disrupt the natural flows of the river, which affects wildlife ...

In the last 2000 years, the Yangtze River has flooded more ... across the Nile 600 miles south of Cairo. The dam has effectively stopped the river's annual floods by trapping its waters in a ...

The death knell for the species probably came with the construction of the first dam on the Yangtze River, the Gezhouba Dam, which began operating in the late 1980s. The dam, located about ...

Subsequent dams have placed new ... Heavy shipping traffic, overfishing, and water pollution have also plagued Yangtze River waters and taken a heavy toll on these aquatic behemoths.

China’s Yangtze River is the longest in Eurasia and the third ... In 2020, unusually heavy rains led to the Three Gorges Dam in Yichang having the highest inflow rates since its construction ...