In April 1992, China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) formally approved the “Resolution on the Construction of the Yangtze River ... s biggest-ever river dam project.

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 ...

For example, the Three Gorges Dam created massive environmental and geological challenges, including disruptions to gravity anomaly maps ... Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in central China.

The Three Gorges Project, the world's largest hydropower dam, will be environmentally friendly and will not destroy the ecological systems of the Yangtze River area, where the dam is being built ...

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 ...

And then the spring snowmelt would come, and the water would rise, and all that history would disappear once more beneath the timeless river. Now that the dam is closed, the Yangtze no longer ...

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 ...