On Dec. 25, Beijing announced it would build a dam on Tibet’s longest river, which Beijing calls the Yarlung Zangbo.

The proposed dam in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo river, known as Brahmaputra in India, is expected to generate 300 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, about three times the ...

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

Concerns swirling over China's recently approved plan to construct the world's largest hydroelectric dam in southern Tibet. It will be built on Tibet's longest river, the Yarlung Tsangpo, and could ...

With the Tibetan region’s seismic vulnerability due to tectonic plate activity, such mega-dam projects could exacerbate risks ...

Estimated $137-billion hydroelectric project, which would be three times larger than China's Three Gorges Dam, has raised ...

Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal emphasizes India's rights over Brahmaputra river amid concerns of China's new dam, ...

Producing hydropower from lower reaches of Yarlung, which becomes Brahmaputra in Arunachal, is either a part of Beijing’s ...

which India dismissed as meaningless. China’s decision to build a hydropower dam on Yarlung Tsangpo river and the creation of new counties, parts of which are in Ladakh, threaten to strain ties ...

Project planned for an ecologically fragile area in Tibet near contested border with India, raising environmental, security ...