In China, populations of the Yangtze finless porpoise have declined over the past 1,400 years. Detailed surveys of its range ...

They called it the “Goddess of the Yangtze ... China’s most important river, which stretches an estimated 6,300 kilometers (3,900 miles) from the Tibetan plateau to the East China Sea ...

The Yangtze River basin – with its fertile soil ... where it empties into the East China Sea. Important cities along the way are Chongqing, Wuhan, Nanjing and Shanghai. With more than 700 ...

For centuries, the Yangtze porpoise was a common sight on the river it is named after. Now, the freshwater mammal is ...

As the Yangtze River basin is in the grip of a severe drought ... A total of 3,300 companies in Ningbo, East China's Zhejiang Province have agreed to avoid using electricity in peak time, and ...

Biqiong Wu is at the Hubei Key Laboratory of Intelligent Yangtze and Hydroelectric Science, China Yangtze Power Company, Yichang, China. China’s Yangtze River is the longest in Eurasia and the ...

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 ministry of water resources said in a notice on Wednesday that drought throughout the Yangtze river basin was “adversely ... Recommended China flash floods: 16 dead and 36 missing in Qinghai ...

The Yangtze is the longest river in Asia – stretching 6,300km from the Tibetan Plateau in the west to the East China Sea near Shanghai ... rainfall in the river basin, reduced water flowing ...