The section from Yangzhou to the river mouth used to be known as the Yangtze. In its lower reaches, the Yangtze River is wide and deep: 18 kilometers wide near Nantong, and 80-90 kilometers wide ...

fresh-water dolphin native to the Yangtze River and Qiantang River in China as recently as the 1990s. The baiji is best known for its squinty eyes and a long, toothed, beak-like mouth. Aficionados ...

Two Yangtze finless porpoises have been returned to the wild for the very first time, offering fresh hope for this deeply ...

A gala opens this year's Yangtze River Cultural Festival ... a city at the waterway's mouth, in Jiangsu province, began in 2004 a cultural festival to celebrate the vigor and diversity of the ...

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 about half of all the fish eaten in ...

Researchers released two captive-born porpoises in a river in China, monitored them and confirmed the first-of-its-kind project was a success. Photo from Xinhua / Wu Zhizu via The State Council ...

which led him to make five trips to the Yangtze River over the course of three years, following it all the way from the mouth of the river to its source on the border of Tibet. Kander implies that ...

BEIJING--The ashes of late Chinese leader Jiang Zemin were scattered into the sea at the mouth of the Yangtze River on Sunday, the state-run Xinhua news agency said. A special plane carrying the ...

For at least 1,400 years, poets in China have penned pieces about the Yangtze River’s sights and sounds. Now, scientists are using those artworks to reconstruct an animal’s past.

BEIJING, Dec 11 (Reuters) - The ashes of late Chinese leader Jiang Zemin were scattered into the sea at the mouth of the Yangtze River on Sunday, the state-run Xinhua news agency said. A special ...