Since 1956, two generations of Three Gorges dam opponents from Li Rui, formerly Mao Zedong’s personal secretary and a vice-minister of water resources, to Dai Qing, a former Guangming Daily ...

Witness the unimaginable devastation as the 7,661-foot Three Gorges Dam fails, unleashing billions of cubic meters of water ...

But critics say the historically high water levels on the Yangtze and its major lakes prove the Three Gorges Dam isn't doing what it was designed for. “One of the major justifications for the ...

The Three Gorges Dam ... many as 371 feet to traverse the dam. Archimedes’ notion was simple: The weight of a buoyant object is equal to the weight of water it displaces. Take two identical ...

The Three Gorges Dam cost £29 billion in 2008 as it resettled 1.4 million people. Despite officials claiming the project will not significantly affect the environment or water supplies ...

The Three Gorges Dam's ability to impact Earth's rotation stems from its enormous water reservoir, which can hold up to 40 ...

Water rose to the maximum level at the Three Gorges Dam on Tuesday, driving electricity output to capacity at the world's largest hydropower plant for the first time since it began operating two ...

NASA reports that the construction and operation of China's Three Gorges Dam have slightly slowed Earth's rotation by 0.06 microseconds. This effect is due to the redistribution of water mass ...

However, Medog won’t be a conventional dam in the form of one giant wall built to hold water behind it, like Three Gorges or the Hoover Dam. Instead, four 12.4-mile (20-kilometer) tunnels will be ...

SHANGHAI--Water levels at China’s giant Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river are inching closer to their maximum after torrential rains raised inflows to a record high, official data showed on ...