Just months after its grand opening, China’s Hongqi Bridge partially collapsed in Sichuan — a catastrophic failure that experts are calling a design failure that “should never happen.”
Hongqi Bridge collapse triggers alarm in seismic Sichuan
The collapse of a section of southwestern China’s Hongqi Bridge exposes unstable slopes, rushed geological surveys, and the hidden risks of rapid dam impoundment.
China’s new Hongqi Bridge collapses—could California’s Chinese bridge be far behind?
Experts testified that the Chinese steel in the Bay Bridge was too brittle.
The lesson of Hongqi Grand Bridge
The partial collapse of a new bridge in China’s Sichuan province this week riveted a global audience with the spectacle of disaster. The greater drama is China’s breakneck hydropower expansion.
The dam at the roof of the world
China’s Yarlung Tsangpo project will be the largest hydroelectric project on Earth. What does that mean for India, and the Brahmaputra?
China’s $167-billion Tibetan dam alarms scientists, neighbors
China’s massive megadam project in Tibet has sparked fierce criticism for its precarious location in a seismically volatile, ecologically fragile region on the Tibetan Plateau.
China’s new “world’s largest” hydropower project commences construction
As China’s Yarlung Zangbo megadam on the eastern rim of the Tibetan Plateau breaks ground, critics question Beijing’s dangerous penchant for megadams for their own sake.
Catastrophe on the roof of the world
China is leveraging its influence to cow criticism of its avaricious projects in one of the world’s most fragile regions.
A case of “extreme nationalism”
China’s planned transboundary Yarlung Tsangpo hydropower project in occupied Tibet is less about energy demand and conservation and more a case of “extreme nationalism,” a new report argues.
‘Building on tofu’: Medog another project damming Tibet’s environment
Critics argue the Medog Hydropower Station in Tibet poses risks that are not worth the cost for a region that doesn’t support demand for the energy it would generate.
Chinese hydropower: damning Tibet’s culture, community and environment
An in-depth look at the scope and scale of China’s single-minded push for ever more dams in Tibet.
Four major hazards of the Jinsha River Tiger Leaping Gorge Hydropower Project
A blockbuster report by Chinese geologist Fan Xiao uncovers the deceit, censorship and raw force at play in the resurrection of a massive dam project in a geologically complex region.
Hydropower reports touch on China’s pain points
Why would Chinese authorities remove four articles on hydropower dams by high-profile geologist Fan Xiao from WeChat after tolerating them for years?
Damage detected in five dams in Tibet after Dingri earthquake
The earthquake has reignited concerns about the vulnerability of China’s extensive hydropower projects in Tibet.
China emptying dams as cracks found after big quake in Tibet
China’s plans for hydropower development in vulnerable regions has alarmed neighboring India and Bangladesh, who fear impacts on tens of millions of people downstream and water supplies.
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