As the rickety bus barely rounded another corner, an audible gasp went through the passengers. A recent blizzard had taken out the road between the high Himalayan villages of Ranipauwa and ...

A Hindu pilgrim stood anxiously next to a bus stand in Mustang, Nepal. “I’m going to burn my passport,” he told me. “I’m going to destroy all my documents and cross the border. I came ...

Some PSH units have been functioning in Europe and Japan for more than 100 years. Water is pumped from a lower reservoir or the side of river to a higher pond using cheap off-peak grid electricity or ...

The GLOF disaster had resulted in 55 casualties, with 70 people still missing and had caused extensive damage to critical ...

During the Spring Festival holiday, Hubei's top tourist sites introduced online ticketing and seamless entry for foreign ...

A stream south of the Argentine capital turned a freakish vermilion this week, prompting concerns about pollution. Officials ...

China's construction and operation of dams has sparked controversy as building river dams and artificial reservoirs causes 'irreversible modification of natural landscapes' and 'such extensive ...

China’s president has been supplying his “dear friend” Vladimir Putin with advanced technologies and helping to prop up the Russian economy, and he is studying Russia’s ability to ...

Here’s how big the Yangtze is. A third of all the inhabitants of China (which means more than 400 million people) live in the area covered by the Yangtze’s river basin. The Yangtze basin provides ...

February 6 marks the fifth anniversary of the death of Dr. Li Wenliang, a young ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital whose attempts to warn colleagues and the public of an emerging ...