In August 1975, China’s Banqiao Dam collapsed after unprecedented rainfall from Super Typhoon Nina. Built to withstand a ...

China’s Banqiao Dam was hailed as indestructible, built to resist a 10,000-year flood. When Supertyphoon Nina struck, it collapsed. This documentary reveals the disaster and the cover-up. Missing ...

Twenty Years Into Fracking, Pennsylvania Has Yet to Reckon With Its Radioactive Waste The World’s Last Flock of Wild Whooping Cranes Gets More Living Space China’s Clean Energy Investments Abroad Are ...

Earlier this month, officials abruptly closed the 758-meter Hongqi Bridge in Sichuan after cracks appeared in the surrounding terrain. Within a day, landslides tore through the mountainside, ...

On July 19, Chinese Premier Li Qiang officially announced the start of construction on a long-planned hydropower project on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River. Billed as a centerpiece of ...

Twenty Years Into Fracking, Pennsylvania Has Yet to Reckon With Its Radioactive Waste The World’s Last Flock of Wild Whooping Cranes Gets More Living Space China’s Clean Energy Investments Abroad Are ...

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 ...