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 ...

Plans for a mega dam on the Tsangpo gave way to possibility of a cascade of smaller dams years ago but there's no clarity on when - and if - these will be built. On December 25, 2024, China's Xinhua ...

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 ...

Lake Kariba lies between Zambia and Zimbabwe in southern Africa and is the world's largest man-made reservoir by volume - but it has recently been hit by severe droughts.

China said it had completed the world's first floating production, storage, and offloading vessel with a carbon capture ...

Throughout human history, civilisations have been named after the rivers along which they flourished: Indus Valley, Nile, ...

The solar power station will collect energy from the sun through its components lofted to a geostationary orbit above Earth ...

Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

A recent study published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science has shed light on the factors influencing floods in the ...