Chinese authorities issued more flood warnings for China’s Yangtze River on Friday, as heavy rains were forecast in provinces in the country’s south. At least 141 people have died or are ...

obstruct navigation and cause frequent floods. Over the past decades, much has been done to straighten out the convoluted section has been shortened by 80 kilometers. The lower Yangtze River ...

China’s Three Gorges on Thursday marked the beginning of construction for a dam that will flood the last free-flowing portion of the middle reaches of the Yangtze, the country’s longest river. The 30 ...

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 ...

With one powerful autumn typhoon having affected a Chinese province and another one bearing down on the mainland, concerns ...

Some rivers around the world are even more dangerous than the Amazon! First, there’s the Congo River in Africa, with its ...

Because its lower reached its dykes and caused 250 major floods in the five centuries ... the greater part of its water now flows into the Yangtze River and the rest into the Huanghai Sea through ...

Now climate change is threatening to bring more droughts, floods and extreme weather events to the river basin, and dry up more of its lakes. It all adds to the challenges we’re tackling to help ...