The Yangtze River is a microcosm of China’s problems. With a population of 400 million along its shores, heavy industry growing, and flooding on the rise, it suffers too little environmental ...

A trip down the Yangtze River ... or Yu the Great—changed the course of Chinese history by placing a mountain in front of the Yangtze River, forcing it to flow east through the Middle ...

Flood Fears in China's East as Rain Swells Yangtze River Levels July 03rd, 12PM ... on Tuesday that water levels in sections of the middle and lower courses of the Yangtze River exceeded the ...

A healthy Yangtze River is critical to China’s future, says Kirsten Schuijt, Director General of WWF International in her Foreword to the Living Yangtze 2022 report. The river basin is home to ...

Nearly 4,000 miles long, the Yangtze has watered civilizations for millennia—and laid waste to them too. The eighth-century poet Li Bai wrote that navigating the river was "even harder than ...

Rainfall in the Yangtze River basin is down 45% below normal levels, and as many as 66 rivers in the Chongqing region are drying up. The heat wave plaguing the area isn’t expected to let up for ...

And while scientists spotted at least 400 individuals between 1979 and 1981 in the Yangtze River, a survey in the late 1990s found only 13 animals. The last record of a confirmed, authenticated ...

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information about the habitat of the world’s only freshwater porpoise Almost 300 ...

Rising water levels in the Yangtze River following intense rains in southern ... The rain belt causing floods in areas around the middle and lower course of China's Yangtze River will begin to ...