Why it's incredible: The gorge is longer and three times deeper than the Grand Canyon in Arizona. The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon is the world's largest terrestrial canyon — longer than even the ...

The Tsangpo Gorge in Tibet, one of the deepest canyons in the world, formed when tectonic forces pushed up the earth and steepened the path of a river that then caused massive erosion, a new study ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon in Tibet, China, site of a planned dam. mayanming via Wikipedia China has begun construction on a ...

Biodiversity is critical to humanity's sustainable future, but global species extinction is accelerating due to environmental changes and human activities. The Yarlung Tsangpo River, which originates ...

China is building the world’s largest hydropower dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet. This river flows into Arunachal Pradesh as the Siang, and it is one of the major tributaries of the ...

The region around Medog, the site of a new mega-dam, is one of the last strongholds of Tibetan cultural and ecological integrity. While the proposed hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo River has ...

been seen by man, that is until IKONOS took these amazing pictures.” ...

The work of old discoverers of the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra, and with the Chinese permitting a film on the Great Bend only as recently as 2000, National Geographic-backed Buddhist American explorer Ian ...

China has officially launched the construction of a massive hydropower project along the Yarlung Tsangpo river, known as the Brahmaputra in India. This new initiative, expected to be one of the ...