A worst-case collapse of China’s Three Gorges Dam sounds like a nightmare: a wall of water racing down the Yangtze, overwhelming cities like Wuhan and Shanghai, crippling a basin that powers about 40 ...

China has built more dams than any other country and more large dams than the rest of the world combined. This month, it officially acknowledged construction of the biggest dam ever conceived in human ...

Earlier this month, officials abruptly closed the 758-meter Hongqi Bridge in Sichuan after cracks appeared in the surrounding terrain. Within a day, landslides tore through the mountainside, ...

Inland remnants of tropical cyclones are notorious rainfall flood producers, as the recent tragedy in Texas in early July 2025 illustrated. But on Aug. 7, 1975, 50 years ago today, one of the world's ...