Decades-old infrastructure strains under demand. Experts warn new fixes won’t address systemic flaws.
China to construct second ship lock at Three Gorges Dam amid growing navigation crisis
Dammed to the hilt
For the first time, a comprehensive list of cascade dams in Sichuan Province shows the jaw-dropping extent to which one of China’s most hydropowered regions is being developed, proving the Xi Jinping […]
More than 100 Tibetans arrested over dam protest
In a rare act of defiance, residents push back against the construction of a massive dam that would destroy Buddhist monasteries and force the resettlement of two villages.
Why is the salty tide at the mouth of the Yangtze River related to the high dams and large reservoirs in the Upper Yangtze River?
The Yangtze estuary’s saline tide has changed significantly since the impoundment of the Three Gorges Reservoir.
Three Gorges migrants through the lens of Li Feng
The creation of China’s Three Gorges Dam buried the past and overturned the lives of millions. Tracking these changes across the years: one of the country’s greatest photographers.
Flee from floods
Why did the Chinese government choose not to reveal the real total capacity of the Three Gorges Dam reservoir – perhaps the most critical technical specification of the entire project?
Peach blossoms on the back, hometown underwater
A photographer captures 30 decades of life in upheaval for Three Gorges migrants and one moment, in particular, that stirred an entire nation.
Where did the Yangtze go?
Expert highlights government actions as reason for dry-up, not just absence of rain.
Sichuan power crunch sparks calls for rethink of coal in China’s energy mix
The hydropower hub calls into question the race for renewable energy.
Former China Three Gorges Corp. head under investigation
Cao Guangjing, vice-governor of Hubei Province, is currently undergoing disciplinary review and supervisory investigation for serious violations of discipline and law, according to the official website of China’s top anti-corruption bodies.
CCP’s Mekong River Belt and Road projects a Faustian bargain, says expert
Renowned hydrology expert Wang Weiluo says the Chinese Communist Party is looking to utilize the Mekong River in the same way the undertaking of the Three Gorges Dam colossus was viewed as […]
China’s dam rush
Critics query hydropower path to carbon neutrality.
Dai Qing’s “Green Ideas”
This summer, Dai Qing, the legendary Chinese investigative journalist, Probe International Fellow and one of China’s most iconic environmental voices will join the Penguin Classics canon in a new series on the […]
China environmental groups slam plan to dam key lake on Yangtze river
Free Birds oppose the return of a project aimed at regulating the water flows of Poyang Lake, considered one of China’s vital “kidneys”.
China’s Three Gorges Dam is one of the largest ever created. Was it worth it?
The Three Gorges Dam was designed to tame China’s longest river. But this summer’s record rains reveal its limited ability to control floods.
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