Aerial view of the ship locks at the Three Gorges Dam in Yichang, Central China's Hubei Province, on Sunday. The Chinese government announced Sunday that the dam project is fully complete and has ...

Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydropower project ever built. When construction began in 1994, it was designed not only to generate electricity to propel China’s breakneck economic growth, but also ...

Dams often attract significant national and international controversies, yet few dams would come as close as China's Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydropower project. The massive dam has been ...

The second-highest rainfall that's swamped China in more than a half-century has fueled new questions about the world's biggest hydroelectric facility, billed as helping to tame floodwaters. Since ...

Three Gorges Energy has connected the world's first 16-megawatt monster offshore wind turbine to the power grid. With a mind-boggling 260-meter (853-ft) rotor diameter, this towering colossus will ...

If the gorges were indeed preserved throughout successive glaciations, they would need to be protected from glacial erosion. Most gorges were at one time filled with extensive deposits of sediment 2, ...

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...

The Three Gorges Project has solidified its role as a multi-functional backbone of China’s Yangtze River management, delivering extensive benefits in prime areas: flood control, water supply, power ...

The Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydropower project, has successfully contained the first large flood of this year with a capacity of 40,000 cubic meters per second thanks to the accurate ...