Blocked by the mighty Himalayas in the southeast ... out the surrounding granite bedrock into the impressive Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon. There aren't enough superlatives in the English language ...
China has approved what is set to become the biggest hydropower dam complex in the world, capable of producing nearly three ...
The project has stoked concerns about displacement and environmental impact downstream in India and Bangladesh.
The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon is the world's largest terrestrial canyon — longer than even the Grand Canyon in Arizona and deeper than every other known canyon on land (the Mariana Trench in ...
Chinese authorities are pressing ahead with plans to build a series of enormous hydropower dams across a gorge in the Himalayas that is three times as deep as the Grand Canyon, despite concerns ...
But what is known is that the project will be built on a section referred to as the Grand Canyon, or the "Great Bend", on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo. According to a 2020 estimate by ...