Take a flight of discovery high above the Three Gorges Dam in China, the largest hydroelectric dam in the world, with ...

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 idea for the Three Gorges Dam isn’t new. It dates back to 1919 when Sun Yat-sen, often called the father of modern China, proposed harnessing the power of the Yangtze River. He believed a ...

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 ...

The completion in 2015 of China's massive Three Gorges Dam has increased water depths on the Yangtze by an average of 50 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

MEMGKE (TRANSLATED): From the roof of our house you can see the Yangtze river and the Three Gorges Dam. My Grandpa said he met a lot of foreigners when they were building the dam. NARRATOR ...