BEIJING -- The Chinese government has approved the construction of a hydropower project in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River. The project will play a positive role in accelerating the ...

The dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo River is expected to be the world’s largest hydroelectric project, but it has caused serious concern about the impact on the Brahmaputra – as it is known ...

The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon is the world's largest terrestrial canyon — longer than even the Grand Canyon in Arizona and deeper than every other known canyon on land (the Mariana Trench in ...