On this day in 1938, the Yellow River experienced a major flood during the Second Sino-Japanese War when the Chinese Nationalist government deliberately destroyed the dikes along the river to halt the ...

The image on the right zooms in on the impacted region, showing the distribution of flood points (red dots), the presence of river dikes (black hexagons), and ... (blue indicates low rainfall, while ...

Weaponising water is as old as siege warfare. Chinese commanders burst Yellow River dikes in 1938, drowning 800,000 civilians to stall Japan; the Dutch flooded their polders in 1672 against Louis XIV; ...

The last breach on the inner dike of the Yellow River along the Lankao county section in central China's Henan Province was successfully stopped at eight minutes past midnight Wednesday.

China's first list of the Yellow River water conservancy heritage has been officially released by the Yellow River Conservancy Commission of the Ministry of Water Resources (YRCC), according to a ...

Throughout history, floods have wreaked havoc globally, causing immense destruction and loss of life. This article details the six deadliest floods, ranging from the 1931 China floods to the 1970 ...

ABSTRACT: The Lancang-Mekong River in China, Laos, Thailand ... China regards the Lancang, Yangtze and Yellow rivers as a free resource rather than a shared resource. The primary difference between ...

Before the dikes were opened the river had flowed northeastward into the Pohai Gulf. Afterward, it turned southeastward and ran into the Yellow Sea. If the river could be diverted to its former ...

Walking along the top of the 20-foot-wide dike, I found a fenced drain ... But that may require a bridge to cross the river. I retraced my steps on the yellow-blazed trail until I reached the ...