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 ...

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

The river is only partially responsible for carving out the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon. The region sits on tectonic plates and suffers regular earthquakes. It's also one of the deepest canyons ...

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

Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu voiced concerns over China's plan to build the world's largest hydropower ...

China has tried to reassure India over its plans for a mega dam in the Tibetan Plateau, which has prompted fears it will ...

The Tibetan river being dammed, the Yarlung Tsangpo, flows into neighboring India ... the dam will be in Medog County in Tibet, in a steep canyon where the river makes a horseshoe turn known ...

That is enough to meet the needs of more than 300m people and more than triple the capacity of the Three Gorges dam, which is ...

Indeed, the mammoth dam is being built just before the Himalayan river Yarlung Tsangpo (known downstream as the Brahmaputra) enters India. Sketchy reports in Chinese state media last month about ...

In the case of the Yarlung Tsangpo dam, Chinese authorities have ... Flowing through the deepest canyon on Earth, one section of the river falls 2,000 metres within a short span of just 50 km ...

The dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo River is expected to be the world’s largest hydroelectric project, but it has caused serious concern about the impact on the Brahmaputra – as it is known ...