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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Yangtze basin, covering parts of 19 provinces, produces 45% of China's economic output, according to the World Bank. The national impact of shutdowns is limited, because Sichuan accounts for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Plunging water levels of the Yangtze River have revealed a submerged island in China’s southwestern city of Chongqing and a trio of Buddhist statues on it that are believed to be 600 years old ...

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 ...

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 ...