Concerns swirling over China's recently approved plan to construct the world's largest hydroelectric dam in southern Tibet. It will be built on Tibet's longest river, the Yarlung Tsangpo, and could ...
The proposed dam in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo river, known as Brahmaputra in India, is expected to generate 300 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, about three times the ...
It would dwarf China’s Three Gorges Dam — currently the world’s largest — and generate 300 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually. The location is a Himalayan gorge where the river plunges ...