With an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,760 kilometers), our planet Earth is the biggest of the terrestrial planets and the fifth largest planet in our solar system. It is the only planet in the ...

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 unique ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

Despite protests from locals, India is building a giant hydro dam on the Siang River to counter a Chinese dam.