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In April 1992, China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) formally approved the “Resolution on the Construction of the Yangtze River ... dam site just downstream of the world-famous Three ...
Attacking the Three Gorges Dam, also known as Feed Me The Three Gorges Dam, refers to memes and discourse about the United ...
the role played by the massive and controversial Three Gorges Dam - designed to help tame the Yangtze river - has come under fresh scrutiny. Amid some of the heaviest rainfall on record ...
T he Three Gorges Dam, a colossal structure spanning the Yangtze River in China's Hubei province, has long been a subject of ...
The idea for the Three Gorges Dam isn’t new. It dates back to 1919 when Sun Yat-sen, often called the father of modern China, proposed harnessing the power of the Yangtze River. He believed a ...
More than 50,000 dams have been built in the Yangtze basin since 1950, and more are planned. Dams divert and disrupt the natural flows of the river, which affects wildlife and people. During ...
SHANGHAI--Water levels at China’s giant Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river are inching closer to their maximum after torrential rains raised inflows to a record high, official data showed on ...
Nearly 4,000 miles long, the Yangtze has watered civilizations for millennia—and laid waste to them too. The eighth-century poet Li Bai wrote that navigating the river was "even harder than ...
The Three Gorges Dam, China’s marvel on the Yangtze River, is one of the world’s largest engineering projects—the product of 37 million cubic yards of concrete. Its final feature ...
There is excellent cell phone coverage at the bottom of the Yangtze ... who reads River Town knows that China has become economically powerful and that the Three Gorges Dam is completed, and ...