As China counts the costs of its most punishing flood season in more than three decades, the role played by the massive and controversial Three Gorges Dam - designed to help tame the Yangtze river ...

the cause of many devastating floods throughout China’s history. China’s giant hydroelectric dams have stored more than 100 billion cubic meters of floodwater this year, and shielded 18.5 ...

The Jinghong dam has previously been blamed for changes in water levels, but Bangkok embassy says no water was discharged last week China said on Tuesday a major dam on the Mekong River did not ...

BEIJING, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Water Resources on Wednesday issued a Level-IV emergency response to flooding, the lowest among its four-tier system, in five provincial-level regions ...

Scientists have warned that widespread dam construction has exacerbated climate change problems in China's flood zone, says the BBC's China correspondent Stephen McDonell. Connections between ...

In the resulting floods, famine and health epidemics ... “More than one third of China’s dams should be considered unsafe.” The most recent dam collapse, that at Gonghe in Qinghai Province ...

East China's Zhejiang province, Sept 19, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua] BEIJING -- Chinese authorities have intensified efforts for flood prevention and control after three typhoons impacted the country's ...

But with China building more dams to generate hydropower, fears are growing over the unseasonal flooding and droughts they cause - and for the future of Southeast Asia’s longest river, which is now ...

In this photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency ... where the 13 sluice gates of the Wagnjiaba dam had been opened, flooding farmland and forests to prevent more extensive damage downriver.

Nepal’s Department of Hydrology and Meteorology claims that China has been withholding vital information on glacial lakes ...

“Third, the Brahmaputra river is linked to Sino-Indian border disputes. This disputed area is called South Tibet in China and ...