Today, there are over 30,000 dams in the world. Most of them are created according to standard projects and are designed to ...

Lake Kariba lies between Zambia and Zimbabwe in southern Africa and is the world's largest man-made reservoir by volume - but it has recently been hit by severe droughts.

With an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,760 kilometers), our planet Earth is the biggest of the terrestrial planets and the fifth largest planet in our solar system. It is the only planet in the ...

Chinese hydroelectric power plans in Tibet threaten to destabilize the Himalayan region’s ecology and politics.

Frequent droughts have pushed authorities to pursue a controversial plan to dam a river to save the waterway — an act that ...

Istanbul is one of the world's biggest cities, growing larger still every year. Its rapid expansion is putting enormous ...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before – government officials spend years planning a project, bogged down by permits, ...

The solar power station will collect energy from the sun through its components lofted to a geostationary orbit above Earth ...

Africa is a beautiful continent, surrounded with deserts jungles, forest and rivers which is at the heart of this lively ...

Nearly a century later, a 1,000-metre-long spillway has been built - the biggest of its kind in the world, with a higher discharge capacity than the Three Gorges Dam in China. The finish line is ...

First a river ran blood red. Now Argentina’s beloved giant rodent, the capybara, has been coated in Hulk-green slime as ...