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Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydropower project ever built. When construction began in 1994, it was designed not only to generate electricity to propel China’s breakneck economic growth, but ...

Three Gorges in China: What you should know about the massive dam that is slowing Earth's rotation Dislocating over a million people, the world's largest hydropower project holds nearly 42 billion ...

The Three Gorges Dam, spanning the Yangtze River in China, is the world’s largest hydropower project. While it generates significant electricity and aids in flood control, recent events have raised ...

After the Flood. Photoessay on Three Gorges Dam on China's mighty Yangtze River; dam is world's largest in terms of water displacement, flood control and power generation; could restrain summer ...

SHANGHAI—For over three decades the Chinese government dismissed warnings from scientists and environmentalists that its Three Gorges Dam—the world's largest—had the potential of becoming ...

At a bend in this twisting, surging stretch of the mighty Yangtze river, one of mankind’s most ambitious efforts to conquer nature is taking shape.A giant crater marks the spot where the world ...

China has completed construction of the main wall of the Three Gorges Dam - the world's largest hydro-electric project. The controversial dam in central Hubei province will not be fully operational ...

After the Flood. Photoessay on Three Gorges Dam on China's mighty Yangtze River; dam is world's largest in terms of water displacement, flood control and power generation; could restrain summer ...