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

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

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

The Yarlung Zangbo River ... In particular, a 31-mile (50-km) stretch near the Namcha Barwa mountain has a 6,562-ft (2,000-m) drop, making it an ideal candidate location for a hydroelectric ...

The area where the dam is being built is prone to earthquakes. The Tibetan river being dammed, the Yarlung Tsangpo, flows into neighboring India as the Brahmaputra and into Bangladesh as the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Mr Khandu drew the attention of all stakeholders towards the Chinese plan to construct the hydropower project - which can generate 60,000 MW of power - on the Yarlung Tsangpo river, which enters ...

NEW DELHI, Jan 3 (Reuters) - India's foreign ministry said on Friday that New Delhi has conveyed its concerns to Beijing about China's plan to build a hydropower dam in Tibet on the Yarlung Zangbo ...

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 downstream ...