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(TibetanReview.net, Oct27’26) – Chinese researchers have determined, based on past nearly 700-year-long data, that the Yarlung Tsangpo river – which is soon to host the largest mega dam in the world – may face increased run-off and flood risks over this century. The brunt of the devastating effect of such an eventuality will obviously fall on downstream India. This is in addition to the serious danger already being posed by the fact that the mega dam is being built on a known seismically active zone.
Using tree-ring width chronologies in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau, the team reconstructed the river’s run-off history from 1325 to 2020 and created a forecast model, reported scmp.com ...
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