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After Beijing granted authorization in December, construction on what would be the world’s largest hydropower dam has now begun. The site is located along the Yarlung Tsangpo River in southeastern ...

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China has begun construction on the world's largest hydropower dam, a project so massive that Premier Li Qiang called it the ...

Since the Yarlung Tsangpo river flows into India’s Arunachal Pradesh as the Siang, then through Assam as the Brahmaputra, before entering Bangladesh as the Jamuna, both of the latter nations are conce ...

Since being announced in 2021, the mega dam on Yarlung Zangbo has raised concerns in India and Bangladesh about the impact it ...

Explore the $1.7 billion Ilisu Dam in Turkey, a significant megaproject with substantial benefits to the local economy. However, its construction has drawn widespread controversy, prompting ...

"This dam can almost power the state of Texas," an engineer told Newsweek, with the scale of energy produced "simply ...

Satellite imagery gives a glimpse of the site where China has commenced construction on what will become the world's largest ...

This is no ordinary project. First proposed in the 1990s and later elevated to national priority in China’s 14th Five-Year Plan, the Yarlung Tsangpo hydropower station is widely seen as the country’s ...

Explore the dynamics of hydropower development in Southeast Asia and China's evolving approach to its dam projects.

NEW DELHI As China pushes ahead with its ambitious plan to build a $16.7 billion mega-dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo, known as ...