Almost all of China's medium and large cities are now susceptible to floods. And Yu says 60% of them experience flooding every year. Extreme weather from climate change is exacerbating the problem.

Floods in northern China from June to August are likely to be more severe this year, authorities said on Thursday in an ...

(Reuters) - China has been hit by devastating floods in recent weeks, inundating cities and causing deaths and infrastructural damage, as well as raising questions about the effectiveness of its ...

Flooding has affected at least 30 million people in China so far this year ... prompted President Xi Jinping to call for building “cities like sponges.” The idea is simple: Using rooftop ...

What does water want? This radical question runs counter to mainstream culture’s well-established urge to control water with dams and levees. But as increasingly severe and frequent floods and ...

While Centenary Park is only a tiny slice of the city, Voraakhom said it’s an example of what can be done. China, which suffers from both flooding and drought, has long been an advocate of ...

Footage from China shows rescuers racing to evacuate trapped residents and streets inundated with water after the country was hit by intense floods and record-breaking rainfall. Southern cities in ...

Some 127million people in China are ... of severe flooding that local media said could be of the sort only 'seen around once a century'. 'Three deaths were reported in Zhaoqing City while the ...

More than a million people have been forced from their homes by the remnants of a storm in China’s northeastern ... and the neighboring cities of Beijing and Tianjin. Flooding in those regions ...

A total of 30 pilot sponge cities were selected in 2015 and 2016. By last year, only 64 of China's 654 cities had produced legislation to implement sponge city guidelines, researchers said in January.

Aug 10 (Reuters) - China has been hit by devastating floods in recent weeks, inundating cities and causing deaths and infrastructural damage, as well as raising questions about the effectiveness ...