In April 1992, China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) formally approved the “Resolution on the Construction of the Yangtze River ... dam site just downstream of the world-famous Three ...

Take a flight of discovery high above the Three Gorges Dam in China, the largest hydroelectric dam in the world, with ...

There is little relief in sight, and the Yangtze River is now above flood level ... “peripheral” structures of the massive Three Gorges Dam deformed due to the building water pressure.

the role played by the massive and controversial Three Gorges Dam - designed to help tame the Yangtze river - has come under fresh scrutiny. Amid some of the heaviest rainfall on record ...

More than 50,000 dams have been built in the Yangtze basin since 1950, and more are planned. Dams divert and disrupt the natural flows of the river, which affects wildlife and people. During ...

The Three Gorges Dam, China’s marvel on the Yangtze River, is one of the world’s largest engineering projects—the product of 37 million cubic yards of concrete. Its final feature ...

SHANGHAI--Water levels at China’s giant Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river are inching closer to their maximum after torrential rains raised inflows to a record high, official data showed on ...

There is excellent cell phone coverage at the bottom of the Yangtze ... who reads River Town knows that China has become economically powerful and that the Three Gorges Dam is completed, and ...

China's Yangtze, the longest river in Asia and the third longest on Earth. The completion in 2015 of China's massive Three Gorges Dam has increased water depths on the Yangtze by an average of 50 ...