By the turn of the first millennium, The Bian Canal (607AD) had already made Huai’an a wealthy trading port. And when the Yellow River changed its course in the 1100s, the fourth largest ...

China has raised the flood alert level on a river in the east of the country after days of heavy rainfall. Officials have moved the alert warning on the Huai river from Level III to Level II ...

The oldest tree species is the Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva). The oldest tree of the species is named Methuselah and is more than 4,800 years old. The longevity of the Great Basin ...

The average temperature of August in China was 22.6 C, or 1.5 C higher than the same period in a typical year, marking the ...

The Yellow River estuary migratory bird sanctuary was listed as a World Natural Heritage site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in July. As the ecological ...

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 ...

The Amur (Heilong) river basin of north-east Asia, home of the critically endangered Amur leopard, the endangered Amur tiger and a tremendous wealth of biodiversity, is under increasing pressures from ...

2017. Anthropogenic origins of a late Holocene, basin-wide unconformity in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, the Luoyang Basin, Henan Province, China. Quaternary Research, Vol. 87, Issue. 3, p.

A solution to the long-building Colorado River conflict is needed — now. The Colorado River supplies water to roughly 35 million people in the American West and in Mexico. A mosaic of compacts ...

Learn about physical characteristics of the Colorado River basin, including climate, rock type, soils, vegetation and river flow. Need for water management Water management is needed on the ...

The water cycle close water cycleThe system where water is constantly moving above, on or below the earth’s surface and is changing state. is also known as the hydrological cycle. Seas and ...

Uganda will in October this year host 10 heads of state and government in from the Nile Basin countries, which officials say will help to deepen cooperation around the River Nile and launch the ...