Thousands of miles from China’s populous coastline, a sharp bend in a remote Himalayan river is set to become the centerpiece of one of the country’s most ambitious – and controversial – ...

Across the world, large dams stand as some of humanity’s most ambitious engineering achievements. They are built not only to generate electricity, but to control floods, support agriculture, and ...

Chinese energy developments in 2025 portend not just changes in the world's largest energy market, but in international ...

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Four years after the Fundão dam collapse—the world's largest mining disaster, which occurred in 2015 in the city of Mariana ...

After years in the wings, hydropower stepped into the spotlight in 2025. Policymakers began to value the grid-balancing power ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping accompanied his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron to Chengdu on Friday (December 5), marking a rare gesture seemingly reserved for the head of Europe's second-largest ...

Ethiopia’s prime minister loves big projects. With a mega-dam completed on the Nile, Abiy Ahmed is now planning Africa’s largest airport and a nuclear power plant. But the threat of war is back ...

India and China’s Brahmaputra dam race is fuelling an energy–data rivalry, turning the Himalayas into a flashpoint of Asia’s ...

These quiet breakthroughs can sometimes go unheard amidst the noise of the news cycle. So, from dramatic growth in renewable ...

Ethiopia’s prime minister loves big projects. With a contentious megadam completed on the Nile, Abiy Ahmed is now planning Africa’s largest airport and a ...