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 ...

More than 52,000 reservoirs have been built on the Yangtze and its tributaries since the 1950s to mitigate flooding, generate hydropower, stabilize water supplies and protect ecology. There are a ...

and can lead to the entire thing collapsing.” Rainfall in the Yangtze basin has been well over double the seasonal average this year. The floods had caused nearly 180 billion yuan ($26 billion ...

China’s worst floods in recent years were in 1998, when more than 2,000 people died and almost 3 million homes were destroyed, mostly along the Yangtze, China’s mightiest river. The government ...