If the Three Gorges Dam collapses, over 400 million lives downstream could be affected. The infrastructure was built to tame nature, but nature always fights back. Learn how massive ambition ...

older dams upriver from Three Gorges overflow or fail, then the pressure on the main dam could quickly overwhelm either its capacity or even its structural integrity. While an outright failure of ...

Lodge, George C., and Cate Reavis. "U.S. Export-Import Bank and the Three Gorges Dam (A), The." Harvard Business School Case 900-017, May 2000. (Revised July 2000.) ...

T he Three Gorges Dam, a colossal structure spanning the Yangtze River in China's Hubei province, has long been a subject of ...

The Three Gorges Dam dramatically reduced the amount of sediment transported by the Yangtze River in China after its completion in 2003. The top image shows the dam site during construction in ...

The Three Gorges project alone has cut downstream floodwaters by 34 percent, officials said. But opponents say the flood control capability of the Three Gorges Dam is limited, and it could even ...

the chosen dam site just downstream of the world-famous Three Gorges scenic area; in December, Premier Li Peng formally declared the project open. The Chinese government has offered overseas ...

the role played by the massive and controversial Three Gorges Dam - designed to help tame the Yangtze river - has come under fresh scrutiny. Amid some of the heaviest rainfall on record ...

The Three Gorges Dam, China’s marvel on the Yangtze River, is one of the world’s largest engineering projects—the product of 37 million cubic yards of concrete. Its final feature ...