Plans for a mega dam on the Tsangpo gave way to possibility of a cascade of smaller dams years ago but there's no clarity on when - and if - these will be built. On December 25, 2024, China's Xinhua ...

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 ...

With an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,760 kilometers), our planet Earth is the biggest of the terrestrial planets and ...

China has seen unusually high levels of rain this flood season, with southwest and central regions in the Yangtze river basin bearing the brunt of flooding. The Ministry of Water Resources said on ...

Over the past 2,000 years, China's Yangtze River has caused devastating floods more than 200 times, destroying tens of thousands of households. Several emperors made various efforts to solve this ...

From July 2 to August 20, the Three Gorges Reservoir experienced a total of five heavy floods. On August 20, the inbound water flow reached this year’s record high of 75,000 cubic meters per second as ...

The Yellow River is China's second-largest river after the Yangtze. Honored as China's ... Chinese people have struggled against the flooding of the Yellow River since ancient times, and ...

Food security has become urgent for both China and Malaysia, exacerbated by geopolitical tensions, trade disruptions, and ...

Along the Pearl River in southern China, a fast-growing industry is churning out cheap clothes and toys that are flooding the world duty-free.

Snakes weren’t always “little dragons.” In early Chinese cultures, they were powerful symbols of vitality and strength in their own right.