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China is top dam builder, going where others won't
Local workers adjust stones on Oct. 6 at a dam construction site by China National Heavy Machinery Corporation at an upstream of Tatay, in Koh Kong province, some 210 kilometers west of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (AP Photo)
December 21, 2012
TATAY RIVER, Cambodia--Up a sweeping jungle valley in a remote corner of Cambodia, Chinese engineers and workers are raising a 100-meter- (330-foot-) high dam over the protests ...
Construction on world's third largest dam in Amazon ...
Some 10 million cubic meters of earth have already been excavated at the planned construction site of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam complex. (Photo: Yu Miyaji)
November 11, 2012
After traveling around an hour and a half by car from the northern Brazilian city of Altamira in Pará State on the Transmazonica, a road traversing the Amazon River, we passed ...
Laos denies pushing ahead with controversial dam
July 06, 2012
Laos is not pushing ahead with the construction of a controversial $3.5 billion hydropower dam on the Mekong River in defiance of an agreement with neighbouring countries,...
RIO+20: Dam threatens Kenyan lake; Chinese aid...
A cattle breeder tends to animals at Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. (Tadashi Sugiyama)
June 11, 2012
LOIYANGALANI, Kenya--About a 20-hour drive from Nairobi, zebras graze on the shore of a jade-green lake while the heads of hippos and Nile crocodiles break the surface of the...
Underwater museum preserves cultural relics in China
Researchers peer at rock engravings at the Baiheliang underwater museum in Chongqing, China, on Oct. 14. (Hiroyuki Kobayashi)
October 22, 2011
CHONGQING, China--Construction of the Three Gorges Dam on the mighty Yangtse river was touted as the biggest project undertaken since the Great Wall of China started to take...
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