A beaver dam so huge, it was more than twice the length of the Hoover Dam. Located in Wood Buffalo National Park in Alberta, ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

China has a plan to build the world's largest hydropower dam, breaking its own record held by the Three Gorges Dam, but India ...

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 ...

The Rogun Dam in Tajikistan, set to be the world's tallest, could reshape Central Asia’s energy landscape. And with the Ukraine war shifting geopolitics in the region, Tajikistan is gaining ...

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 ...