Earthquakes have damaged dams in the past, particularly by setting off landslides and rockfalls. Read more at ...

Just as ties seemed to be on the mend, a US$137 billion hydropower behemoth on the Yarlung Tsangpo River threatens to muddy ...

But starting in 2012, when the larger of China’s upper Mekong hydropower dams came online, the model and the river level readings started to diverge most years, coinciding with periods of the Chinese ...

Days after China said that the 6.8-magnitude earthquake did not cause any damage to dams in Tibet, it has been forced to ...

The Jan. 7 quake in Tibet, the fifth-deadliest in China since the 2008 Sichuan temblor, destroyed more than 3,600 houses and ...

西藏本周发生的6.8级地震造成126人死亡，有四座水库受损。路透社周五（1月10日）引用专家的话说，这凸显出亚洲的两个大国中国和印度在世界上最 ...

Research suggests a proliferation in plans for hydropower dams in the ecologically and politically sensitive region.

Within a week after the 23rd meeting of the Special Representatives of India and the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the latter’s actions went against the letter and spirit of the meeting. It was ...

Chinese authorities in Tibet have detected problems, including cracks, at five out of 14 hydropower dams that they have inspected since a magnitude 6.8 earthquake rocked the southwest region last week ...

China has long targeted the region for hydroelectric projects to meet its energy needs. Protests have not stopped dam construction, despite a study stressing the risks of an increase in landslides and ...

Chinese authorities assert the project is vital ... China and India have competed intensely in constructing hydroelectric dams in this ecologically fragile and seismically vulnerable region.

Tibet's recent 6.8 magnitude earthquake reveals seismic risks to hydropower projects in the Himalayas. With 68 dams ...