Almost all of China's medium and large cities are now susceptible to floods. And Yu says 60% of them experience flooding every year. Extreme weather from climate change is exacerbating the problem.

Floods in northern China from June to August are likely to be more severe this year, authorities said on Thursday in an ...

(Reuters) - China has been hit by devastating floods in recent weeks, inundating cities and causing deaths and infrastructural damage, as well as raising questions about the effectiveness of its ...

Flooding has affected at least 30 million people in China so far this year ... prompted President Xi Jinping to call for building “cities like sponges.” The idea is simple: Using rooftop ...

China Gives Cities Over $316 Million in Emergency Relief Amid Deadly Floods BEIJING (Reuters) -China has provided more than 2.3 billion yuan ($316.4 million) in funds to help with rescue efforts ...

What does water want? This radical question runs counter to mainstream culture’s well-established urge to control water with dams and levees. But as increasingly severe and frequent floods and ...

Some 127million people in China are ... of severe flooding that local media said could be of the sort only 'seen around once a century'. 'Three deaths were reported in Zhaoqing City while the ...

Days of heavy rain have caused severe flooding in China’s leading grain-producing ... another 14 deaths were reported Sunday in the city of Shulan in Jilin province. Among the dead were three ...

Footage from China shows rescuers racing to evacuate trapped residents and streets inundated with water after the country was hit by intense floods and record-breaking rainfall. Southern cities in ...

More than a million people have been forced from their homes by the remnants of a storm in China’s northeastern ... and the neighboring cities of Beijing and Tianjin. Flooding in those regions ...

A total of 30 pilot sponge cities were selected in 2015 and 2016. By last year, only 64 of China's 654 cities had produced legislation to implement sponge city guidelines, researchers said in January.