In a comprehensive ecological intervention, China has claimed to dismantle 300 dams and decommission more than 90 percent of ...

Scientists hope the sturgeon known as the Yangtze's last giant and other rare species may return to their breeding grounds as a result China has demolished 300 dams and shut down most of the small ...

The move affects the Chishui He, also known as the Red River, a 400-kilometre waterway flowing through Yunnan, Guizhou, and ...

In the far southwest of China, plans to build massive reservoirs as part of hydroelectric dam projects have condemned dozens ...

Large Chinese dams on the Mekong River have been blamed for disrupting water flows into countries such as Thailand and Vietnam, while Chinese dam-building projects in places such as Burma and ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) -A U.S.-funded project using satellites to track and publish water levels at Chinese dams on the Mekong river was announced on Monday, ...

Of the dams in Laos whose operators and builders have been made public, about half are associated with Chinese companies. The country has borrowed heavily from Chinese state institutions to fund ...

Chinese dams played a recharging role in the dry season drought that occurred in the Mekong River basin in 2016 and 2019. According to a joint report by the China Institute of Water Resources and ...

Many more dams are planned for the Mekong, including by China and landlocked Laos, which with Chinese support sees hydropower exports becoming the mainstay of its economy, one of Asia’s least ...

Today, dams are big business in China, and profit-seeking is another major reason behind the hydropower push. Few if any hydropower projects have been more controversial than the Three Gorges.

"We've certainly seen in many places in the Indo-Pacific that upstream dams that the Chinese have created, including in the Mekong region, can have really potentially damaging environmental but ...

China's Mekong River dams held back large amounts of water during a damaging drought in downstream countries last year despite China having higher-than-average water levels upstream, a U.S ...