China’s state news agency recently announced government approval for constructing the world’s largest hydropower project, ...

Without greater transparency on the part of China and cooperative frameworks, this dam could become a flashpoint in an ...

When The Global Times announced that Beijing was going to build a cascade of nine large HPPs on the Yarlung Tsangpo, human ...

With the Tibetan region’s seismic vulnerability due to tectonic plate activity, such mega-dam projects could exacerbate risks ...

But China’s Medog project on the ‘Great Bend’ of the Yarlung Tsangpo river — the upstream part of the Brahmaputra river — is ...

Lhasa, China - November 09, 2024 Close-up view of the Yarlung Zangbo River and Mount Namjagbarwa. This footage was filmed by Mr. Gasong, in Qushui, Lhasa, Xizang, at 17:03, on November 9 ...

It has been widely reported that China has approved the construction of the world’s largest hydropower dam in Tibet on the Yarlung Tsangpo river. When the river ...

The India-China conversation on water has, over the years, merely skimmed the surface, unable, and often unwilling, to wade ...

What happens when a mountain glacier melts? China’s glaciers are mostly to be found on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. By their seasonal melt, they feed rivers including the Yangtze, Yellow, and Yarlung ...

The Yarlung Tsangpo project has also raised geopolitical concerns ... The ambitious project will involve drilling at least four 20-kilometer-long tunnels through the Namcha Barwa mountain range to ...