The story begins in 1835, when the first of what would become thousands of dams was built. These human-made reservoirs store ...

Star trails above the Three Gorges Dam in Yichang, Hubei province, China. Large dams like this one are shifting the Earth's poles away from its axis of rotation.

Today, there are over 30,000 dams in the world. Most of them are created according to standard projects and are designed to help the population with agriculture. But one of them is completely ...

A new study has found that dams are so effective at 'impounding' massive amounts of water that they've effectively shifted Earth's poles.

The science behind why the Earth will spin just a little bit faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, this year.

Luckin Coffee, the largest coffee chain in China, has branched into the US with two New York City locations that opened Monday, June 30.

Low environmental standards helped China become the world’s low-cost producer of rare earths, but Beijing was also focused on helping the industry.

The Earth Is Spinning Faster—Here’s Why July and August Will Have Record-Short Days Earth's length of day will be shorter than usual this summer.

A giant solar-plus-vanadium flow battery project in Xinjiang has completed construction, marking a milestone in China’s pursuit of long-duration, utility-scale energy storage.

Time is not on your side this summer. The Earth is set to have three remarkably shorter than average days in the coming weeks as the Earth’s rotation unexpectedly accelerates, according to ...

Data released by China’s Ministry of Education last month revealed an astonishing reality: In the past two years alone, 36,000 preschools across China have shuttered their doors. This is not due ...