The location in the remote and sparsely populated Tibetan borderlands has the potential to cause environmental and political ...

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

China has begun building the world’s largest hydropower dam on the Tibetan plateau, with Dongfang Electric and Xizang Tianlu ...

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 ...

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

In a significant development bolstering India's defence across the Line of actual control (LAC), India is close to completing the high-altitude Mudh–Nyoma airfield in eastern ...

A decade since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, two big outstanding questions have delayed action: Who is responsible ...

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 ...

Explore the dynamics of hydropower development in Southeast Asia and China's evolving approach to its dam projects.

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