The location in the remote and sparsely populated Tibetan borderlands has the potential to cause environmental and political ructions China has officially broken ground on what is set to become the ...

China has broken ground on what it says will be the world’s largest hydropower project, a $170bn feat capable of generating ...

Once constructed, it will be the world's largest hydropower dam. Its size and scale could also enable Beijing to release large amounts of water that could flood border areas on the Indian side.

Using the dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo to share electricity could carry ‘significant strategic value’ for Beijing, analysts say ...

Bangladesh has expressed confidence in China’s explanation of its new hydropower project upstream on the Brahmaputra River, ...

A campaign framing the Brahmaputra as a shared heritage could pressure China. India should invest in modernising irrigation, ...

This is no ordinary project. First proposed in the 1990s and later elevated to national priority in China’s 14th Five-Year Plan, the Yarlung Tsangpo hydropower station is widely seen as the country’s ...

The dam will be built on Tibet’s longest river and despite concerns from India, Bangladesh and Tibetan rights groups, it has ...

Beijing has formally assured Bangladesh that its massive new hydropower project on the Yarlung Zangbo River in Tibet, ...

The announcement of the development of a dam on the Brahmaputra River has raised serious concerns for India and Bangladesh.

The $167 billion initiative has raised significant environmental and geopolitical concerns, especially in neighbouring India ...

Mangroves have been the focus of conservationists for years, and it is difficult to overstate their importance in the global ...