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 River in Asia is drying up at its banks and its bed is emerging in some areas. But it’s the Yangtze’s tributaries that are already intensely parched.

With its numerous tributaries and lakes and large amounts of converging waters, the middle section of the Yangtze River accounts for 47.3 percent of the river’s total runoff.

Here’s how big the Yangtze is. A third of all the inhabitants of China (which means more than 400 million people) live in the area covered by the Yangtze’s river basin. The Yangtze basin provides ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Three Gorges are three adjacent gorges on the Yangtze River's course through Chonging and Hubei provinces. Spanning some 193km, the gorges are known both for their spectacular scenery and the ...

Sightings of the Yangtze finless porpoise inferred from five poems written during the Tang Dynasty, combined with more recent data, represent the animal’s range during that time. Zhang et al ...

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 ...