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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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 ...

A year shy of its 90th anniversary, experts still marvel at the construction of the Hoover Dam, one of the most visited sites ...

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 ...

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

India is building a giant hydropower dam near the Siang river to counter a huge Chinese dam further north. But this latest move in a tit-for-tat saga of water geopolitics between the two nations ...