China's Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydroelectric plant in the world, stretching nearly a mile and half wide and over 600 feet high ? five times larger than the Hoover Dam. And climate change is seriously threatening the dam's future. China's top meteorologist Zheng Guoguang warned on Monday that climate change is driving an increase in dangerous weather events like floods, typhoons, and droughts, which pose a threat to the Three Gorges Dam as well as other major infrastructure projects, Reuters reported. "Against the backdrop of the global warming, the risks faced by our large engineering projects have increased," Zheng told state newspaper Study Times, according to Reuters. "Global warming affects the safety and stability of these big projects, as well as their operations and economic effectiveness, technological standards and engineering methods."

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