WWF-US / J.J. Huckin The Yangtze River flows for 6,300km, more than halfway across China. Its river basin is around 1.8 million sq km – almost a fifth of China's land area. As China’s economy has ...

Central inspection report says pollution and illegal activity causing ... waterway Environmental degradation is threatening China's Yangtze River and its two largest freshwater lakes, a ...

Thanks to sustained conservation efforts, sightings of finless porpoises along the Yangtze river have grown increasingly ...

The largest river in China and the third largest river in the world, the 6,300-kilometer-long Yangtze River plays an important role in China. The Yangtze River basin – with its fertile soil ...

mainly the Yangtze River, to the dry north. By the end of October, China had invested the equivalent of 5 billion USD in the eastern and middle routes. The project has contributed to alleviate ...

China has had a particularly long and terrible history of flooding. In the last 2000 years, the Yangtze River has flooded more than 1000 times. But it is the Hwang Ho or "Yellow River" that has ...

The reservoir in central China, considered the largest dam in the world, allows water from the Yangtze River to flow to the ... impacts on ecosystems, pollution, rise of waterborne diseases ...

You Shaoqiang, chief engineer of the tunnel project of China Railway 14th Bureau, told Xinhua: "This project will play a pivotal role in promoting regional integration within the Yangtze River ...

They’ve lived in China’s Yangtze River for perhaps ... Heavy shipping traffic, overfishing, and water pollution have also plagued Yangtze River waters and taken a heavy toll on these aquatic ...

The 20th-century novelist Pearl S. Buck dubbed it "the wildest, wickedest river" for its murderous floods. So much of China's past lies on the Yangtze; now, a trip along the river also affords a ...