Chinese authorities issued more flood warnings for China’s Yangtze River on Friday ... for the Three Gorges Dam was flood control, but less than 20 years after its completion we have the ...

Despite its controversies, the dam has successfully prevented major floods. Before it was built, the Yangtze River caused devastating floods every 10 years. Now, with a 405-square-mile reservoir ...

More than 50,000 dams have been built in the Yangtze basin since 1950, and more are planned. Dams divert and disrupt the natural flows of the river, which affects wildlife and people. During ...

Nearly 4,000 miles long, the Yangtze has watered civilizations for millennia—and laid waste to them too. The eighth-century poet Li Bai wrote that navigating the river was "even harder than ...

SHANGHAI--Water levels at China’s giant Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river are inching closer to their maximum after torrential rains raised inflows to a record high, official data showed on ...

The River Yangtze startson the Tibetan Plateau,in Qinghai province,and ends in Shanghai.In the olden days before moderntransport ... my grandparents.They look after me because my parentswork ...

Today, there are over 30,000 dams in the world. Most of them are created according to standard projects and are designed to ...