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The Three Gorges Dam: A Ticking Time Bomb?
What would happen if the Three Gorges Dam suddenly failed? From mass flooding to economic ruin, we break down the terrifying consequences of a potential dam disaster in China. Could this be one of the ...
The National Interest7d
Cascading Effects: Will China’s New Dam Create A Himalayan Rift?
Chinese hydroelectric power plans in Tibet threaten to destabilize the Himalayan region’s ecology and politics.
The world's largest man-made lake that connects two countries and took 5 years to build
Lake Kariba lies between Zambia and Zimbabwe in southern Africa and is the world's largest man-made reservoir by volume - but ...
The New York Times26d
China’s Large and Mysterious Dam Project Is Alarming Neighbors and Experts
By Tiffany May Isabelle Qian and Suhasini Raj Step aside, Three Gorges Dam. China’s latest colossal infrastructure project, if completed, will be the world’s largest hydropower dam ...
GlobalData on MSN10d
Hydropower’s dark underbelly: unravelling the costs of transboundary hydropower
Although a promising green alternative to fossil fuels, hydropower can also come with geopolitical, environmental and social ...
AOL26d
Dam plan busted? World's biggest hydropower project in the balance
The structure would be called the Grand Inga Dam. Located in the Democratic Republic of Congo, it would have twice the power generation of China's Three Gorges and, therefore, be the world's ...
Loves by Domus11d
Chinese space power plant will generate an incredible amount of solar energy
China will launch a one-kilometer-long renewable energy station into space, capable of generating in one year the equivalent ...
glassalmanac.com10d
NASA states that China has the potential to slow down Earth’s rotation with a single action
The Three Gorges Dam in China is often praised as a marvel of modern engineering, but according to NASA, this colossal ...