China invested heavily in one of its most ambitious dam projects, designed to control floods and generate massive power. Engineers claimed the structure could withstand extreme conditions. But ...

China is no stranger to massive civil engineering projects, but its latest hydropower effort is impressively large, even by ...

Inland remnants of tropical cyclones are notorious rainfall flood producers, as the recent tragedy in Texas in early July 2025 illustrated. But on Aug. 7, 1975, 50 years ago today, one of the world's ...

Super Typhoon Ragasa caused devastating damage to East Asia, killing at least 20 people and displacing close to 2 million people in the deadly path that peaked in the Philippines, Taiwan, and down to ...