China has begun construction on the world's largest hydropower dam, a project so massive that Premier Li Qiang called it the "project of the century." But the dam could also create a big problem for ...

Laos’ government has longstanding plans to turn the landlocked country of 8 million people into “the battery of Southeast Asia” by exporting electricity generated by hydropower dams along the Mekong ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — With great fanfare Ethiopia inaugurated its controversial mega-dam on the Blue Nile on Tuesday – the biggest hydroelectric dam in Africa but one that's divided the region ...

Today, there are over 30,000 dams in the world. Most of them are created according to standard projects and are designed to ...

Ethiopia inaugurated the continent's largest hydroelectric project on Tuesday in what Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed called a "great achievement for all black people", but it drew a protest to the United ...

Over the past two centuries, the construction of thousands of dams has done more than just tame rivers – it has shifted the Earth’s North Pole about a meter from its original position. By storing ...

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