Rural communities have found cracks developing in their homes as continuous blasting for construction of hydropower projects takes place nearby

Spiralling costs, long delays, earthquakes and landslide risks plague developers trying to build hydropower projects in the Indian Himalayan states

The long anticipated resurrection of a controversial dam on the upper Yangtze river in western China is the latest sign that the nation’s once-robust environmental movement is being muzzled by the government’s crackdown on NGOs and its near-total control over social media

Building bumper-to-bumper dams increases disaster risks in the region

Villagers in the northern Indian state say they have been left out of a crucial decision on the second and third stage of a hydropower project with huge environmental risks

Experts wonder why a bill riddled with errors has been tabled in the upper house of parliament

Dam construction threatens tens of thousands of rock engravings in the Chilas valley in northern Pakistan; some carvings date back to 8,000 BCE.

The Baglihar dam in Jammu and Kashmir bears testimony to the enormous human costs associated with hydroelectricity projects

As India’s hydropower hotspot, Himachal Pradesh offers important lessons about the huge risks of building large dams in the Himalayas

Saif M Hussain, an expert on structural engineering with a focus on seismic risks, describes his concerns over Pakistan’s largest proposed dam