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

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India has taken note of China’s announcement of a mega dam project on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo, the ...

China will launch a one-kilometer-long renewable energy station into space, capable of generating in one year the equivalent ...

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

Although a promising green alternative to fossil fuels, hydropower can also come with geopolitical, environmental and social ...