China has launched the $167 billion Tibet mega-dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo River despite potential downstream risks in India and Bangladesh. The country has dismissed concerns that the project could ...

India fears a planned Chinese mega-dam in Tibet will reduce water flows on a major river by up to 85% during the dry season, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: This corner of India, wedged between China, Bhutan and Myanmar, is the front line in a water war between two Asian ...

Ethiopia says its mega-dam on the River Nile is now complete, following years of tensions with Egypt and Sudan over its construction that many feared would lead to war in Africa. The contentious ...

New disclosures reveal that China’s planned super-dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo — the world’s highest-altitude major river, better known as the Brahmaputra — is not a single structure. Rather, it is a a ...

Chinese Premier Li Qiang launched construction of a mega-dam project in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet on Saturday, with a total planned investment of 1.2 trillion yuan ($167 ...

Restarting the shelved US$3.6 billion Myitsone Dam project could ultimately come down to Beijing’s ‘risk tolerance’.

India says the proposed new mega-dam could counteract rival China's building of a likely record-breaking dam upstream in Tibet by stockpiling water and guarding ...

Johannesburg — Africa's largest hydroelectric dam, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), on the Blue Nile is scheduled to open Tuesday to major fanfare in Ethiopia. The $5 billion dam project ...

China’s 1.2 trillion yuan ($167 billion) mega-dam in Tibet will face strict scrutiny to access green financing because of the potential environmental and social impacts of large hydropower, according ...

Construction has officially started on what is expected to become the world's largest hydro-electric dam in Tibet. The dam, once complete, would generate the same amount of energy that the UK uses in ...