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 ...

Photo: IC China has an old saying that ... Targeting key problems including water shortages, ecological fragility, and flooding along the Yellow River, the law reiterated that China encourages ...

suggests an analysis of flooding from the Yellow River in China. More extreme and frequent rainfall due to global warming means river flooding is a growing threat to millions of people worldwide.