Building mud barriers alongside rivers to prevent floods may have the opposite effect, suggests an analysis of flooding from the Yellow River in China. More extreme and frequent rainfall due to ...

On this day in 1938, the Yellow River experienced a major flood during the Second Sino-Japanese War when the Chinese Nationalist government deliberately destroyed the dikes along the river to halt the ...

As the largest of its kind on the Yellow River, the Xiaolangdi Dam, designed to control flood and ice, to dredge, and to ensure water supply and power generation, directly affects the downstream ...

A new study published in Engineering presents an integrated model that evaluates flood risks to people’s life and property in the lower Yellow River (LYR) under various floodplain management modes.

The Yellow River, the world’s sixth-longest and most sediment-laden, occupies a singular place in Chinese history and national identity. It is often associated with great misery caused by its flooding ...

The village is located by a floodplain along the former course of the Yellow River -- China's "Mother River." In the 1980s, the villagers used the floodplain for farming and grazing, leading to ...

Flooding in China’s Yellow River became 10 times more frequent in the last 1,000 years than in several previous millennia, and it cannot be blamed on climate change, a new study has shown.