Rising in the Tanggula Mountains in west-central China, the Yangtze River flows ... km inland from the East China Sea to Chongqing. The economy of much of the Yangtze basin is focused largely ...

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 ...

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

A luxury cruise liner, the “Dongfangzhixing” or Eastern Star, capsized late Monday in the waters of China’s Yangtze River, with 456 passengers and crew on board. The ship had been traveling ...

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 ...

Residents could safely reach a pier of the Qiansimen Bridge overlooking the river. China ... to the east, but is now imposing strict consumption controls. Rainfall in the Yangtze basin has been ...

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 ...

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 ...

Among the many cruises along the world’s most famous rivers, I feel like the ones on China’s Yangtze are often forgotten. But cruising along this mighty river is the best way to appreciate the ...

In the summer of 1931, an unprecedented calamity unfolded along the Yangtze River basin in eastern China - the 1931 Yangtze ... of tropical El Nino–related sea surface temperature forcing ...

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 ...