And in recent years, Chinese scientists have explored the possibilities of channeling the plentiful waters of the Yangtze River to the water-deficient north. The Yangtze River starts at he ...

Thanks to sustained conservation efforts, sightings of finless porpoises along the Yangtze river have grown increasingly ...

When reviewing the photos, he saw something he hadn’t noticed before: A mountain shaped like a dog’s head rested on the ground next to the Yangtze River, its snout perched at the water’s edge.

Last year, 227 species of native fish were found in the Yangtze River basin. This is 34 more than the previous year. The report gave an excellent rating for the overall water quality of the ...

the lack of proper pollution prevention measures in some docks meant industrial and domestic waste water was directly discharged into the Xiao River, a major tributary of the Yangtze. The Meixi ...

Wetlands in the Middle Yangtze River Basin (MYRB) are facing significant ecological challenges due to climate change and ...

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 ...

A botched demolition at a cement plant in central China’s Hunan province has been identified as the source of a toxic leak ...

Scientists took both water and sediment samples from 30 different locations all along 1750 kilometers of the river and even when the Yangtze does have a high degree of pollutant build-up ...

In recent years, Wujiang District of Suzhou City has worked together with Qingpu District of Shanghai and Jiashan County of ...

A third of all the inhabitants of China (which means more than 400 million people) live in the area covered by the Yangtze’s river basin. The Yangtze basin provides about half of all the fish eaten in ...

The Yangtze river’s finless porpoise is one of the very few porpoises (relatives of dolphins and whales) that live in fresh water. Its small size and cute 'smile' make it much loved in China and ...