The Three Gorges Dam significantly altered the Yangtze River and pushed the boundaries of modern engineering. This video ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Humanity’s impact on the planet is so immense that our engineered megastructures have altered the very rotation of the planet. A new study from ...

New research suggests that the thousands of dams built over the past two centuries have caused the Earth's poles to drift more than a meter. Reading time 2 minutes Humans have built so many dams ...

China is planning to build a series of enormous hydropower dams. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Georgetown University professor Mark Giordano about the project and its effect on Sino-Indian relations.