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 ...

China has had a particularly long and terrible history of flooding. In the last 2000 years, the Yangtze River has flooded more than 1000 times. But it is the Hwang Ho or "Yellow River" that has ...

Now climate change is threatening to bring more droughts, floods and extreme weather events to the river basin, and dry up more of its lakes. It all adds to the challenges we’re tackling to help ...

The 20th-century novelist Pearl S. Buck dubbed it "the wildest, wickedest river" for its murderous floods. So much of China's past lies on the Yangtze; now, a trip along the river also affords a ...

SHANGHAI--Water levels at China’s giant Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river are inching closer to ... double the seasonal average this year. The floods had caused nearly 180 billion yuan ...

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 ...