How tribal leaders, commercial fisherman and a few small environmental groups won an uphill campaign against dams.

When the Three Gorges Dam - the largest hydroelectric dam in the world - was built it put a very large obstacle in the way of a trade route that had bee used for hundreds of years. So, to solve ...

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Now let us turn our attention to the natural beaver related-phenomenon in Alberta, with the world’s largest beaver dam spanning almost 800 metres, more than eight times the size of the Statue of ...

With an installed capacity of 5.15 gigawatts, the dam sits among the 20 largest in the world with its primary function being electricity production. Despite its many benefits, the dam has also ...

Located in the Democratic Republic of Congo, it would have twice the power generation of China's Three Gorges and, therefore, be the world's largest hydroelectric plant. The Grand Inga Dam enticed ...

When completed, the dam will be the 10th largest in the world and will have 13 turbines that could produce 5 gigawatts of electricity — 2½ times as much as Hoover Dam. The river flows over the ...

With tears in their eyes, mothers of children who died in Brazil's worst environmental disaster - the 2015 Mariana dam ...

BEIJING--China has approved the construction of what will be the world’s largest hydropower dam, kicking off an ambitious project on the eastern rim of the Tibetan plateau that could affect ...