With an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,760 kilometers), our planet Earth is the biggest of the terrestrial planets and ...

“We are working on this project now," Long Lehao ... "It is as significant as moving the Three Gorges Dam to a geostationary orbit 36,000km (22,370 miles) above the Earth." ...

Chinese hydroelectric power plans in Tibet threaten to destabilize the Himalayan region’s ecology and politics.

Nearly a century later, a 1,000-metre-long spillway has been built - the biggest of its kind in the world, with a higher ...

He says years of delays and numerous changes of partners are "normal" for a major infrastructure project like the Inga Dam. He points to the UK's Mersey Tidal Project - which if successful would be ...

China’s Three Gorges Dam follows the engineering achievements of the Grand Coulee Dam in America. Our research explains every part of the Grand Coulee Dam and shows how its water production creates ...

That would be triple the capacity of the Three Gorges Dam, currently the world’s biggest ... a Tibet researcher based in India. Now, people will have to be relocated to make way for the dam ...

The 2,335-metre-long Three Gorges Dam, which crosses the Yangtze River in central China, is the largest producer of hydroelectric power in the world. "We are working on this project now," said Long.

China’s state-owned Three Gorges Corporation has decided to withdraw from the Grand Inga Dam project ... these dams now function at only 80% of their capacity due to poor upkeep.

Inga 1 and 2 now work at around 80% of their ... difficulties in mobilising investments" for the dam. The recent withdrawal of China's Three Gorges Corporation intensifies these difficulties.