With the construction of the 'Three Gorges Dam' and the accompanying largest power station in the world, China has ensured ...

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 ...

Caption The Three Gorges Dam dramatically reduced the amount of sediment transported by the Yangtze River in China after its completion in 2003. The top image shows the dam site during ...

Edward Burtynsky’s Three Gorges Dam Project exposes the environmental ramifications of the controversial Chinese dam, a $180 billion project designed to curb the Yangtze River and provide ...

T he Three Gorges Dam, a colossal structure spanning the Yangtze River in China's Hubei province, has long been a subject of ...

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 ...

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 ...

China's Yangtze, the longest river in Asia and the third longest on Earth. The completion in 2015 of China's massive Three Gorges Dam has increased water depths on the Yangtze by an average of 50 ...

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 ...