(Get China maps, facts, photos, music, and more.) Sun Yat-sen, founder of the Republic of China, first suggested a dam on the Yangtze River in central China's Hubei Province. He believed the ...

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 ...

As flood No. 2 hit the upper Yangtze River, the Three ... In response, the dam opened six floodgates, releasing water to manage flood levels. Florida Map Shows Areas Where Hurricane Milton Storm ...

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 ...

silt-laden Yangtze River, swelled by giant Three Gorges Dam, will inundate Yunyang; photo; map (L) China's Prime Min Zhu Rongji, in implicit admission that severe problems bedevil giant Three ...

Ships sail on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in Zigui county of Yichang city, central China's Hubei Province, Aug. 16, 2022. (Photo: China News Service/Zheng Jiayu) The Three Gorges Dam ...

Safety experts with the government-run China Three Gorges Corporation said on its official website that the Yangtze River dam ... from Google Maps last week purporting to show the dam had bent ...