In a startling revelation, geologists from China have identified an active fault line beneath the Brahmaputra hydropower project, prompting concerns over the dams stability and adjoining infrastructures. This finding challenges previous reassurances from Beijing about the project's safety features. The construction, which commenced last July amid known seismic threats, has now come under scrutiny regarding its engineering soundness and potential environmental impacts.

Research emerging from China points to structural vulnerabilities and geological threats which make foundation-bearing capacity of projects near Paizhen Fault more susceptible to…

Even as China races to build the world's largest hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet, its own government-backed geologists have warned that the mega dam sits…