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 ...

In a united call for environmental justice and regional peace, civil society groups, indigenous communities, farmers, forest dwellers, women’s organizations, and human rights defenders across the ...

China may have just initiated a water war with India. How? It has begun work on the controversial dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo ...

At over 4,000 metres above sea level on the Yarlung Tsangpo, Tibet’s sacred river that becomes the Brahmaputra in India, the ...

Biodiversity is critical to humanity's sustainable future, but global species extinction is accelerating due to environmental ...

Using the dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo to share electricity could carry ‘significant strategic value’ for Beijing, analysts say ...

China has begun construction on a massive dam project in the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon in Tibet, the longest and deepest canyon in the world. Experts fear the impact on wildlife in the river gorge, ...

China has started construction of what would be the world’s largest hydropower dam. Chinese Premier Li Qiang on July 19 led a ...

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

China is building the world's largest hydropower dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo river, which starts in the Himalayas. However, ...

The Yarlung Tsangpo hydropower project in Tibet, envisioned to be bigger than the Three Gorges Dam, threatens a uniquely ...

China has claimed that the gargantuan Yarlung Tsangpo dam is aimed to bolster the country's energy independence as the ...