In April 1992, China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) formally approved the “Resolution on the Construction of the Yangtze River Three Gorges Project,” marking the conclusion of decades ...
The Three Gorges Dam in China is a structure so huge that it controls one of the world's most powerful rivers—and even ...
The Three Gorges Dam, China’s largest, is on high alert as floods triggered by torrential rains wreak havoc in the southwestern part of the country. Record rainfall in Chongqing has caused ...
When the Three Gorges Dam - the largest hydroelectric dam in the world - was built it put a very large obstacle in the way of a trade route that had bee used for hundreds of years. So, to solve ...
This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Technically it’s ancient technology. But now the two-millennia-old principle of the Greek mathematician Archimedes has ...
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 ...