Hurricane Helene's rain brought a flood of mud and destruction to homes like this one along the Swannanoa River in Swannanoa ... respond to a request by National Geographic for an interview.) ...

The trickle turned into a stream, which widened into a river, and soon the ocean was ... The nonprofit National Geographic Society, committed to illuminating and protecting the wonder of our ...

and flash floods. To help China address these challenges, the World Bank approved a $150 million loan in 2019 for the Forest Ecosystem Improvement in the Upper Reaches of Yangtze River Basin Program.

The National Geographic ... where the river is joined by several large tributaries, widening considerably, the monsoon converts it into a raging torrent that regularly floods Bihar, the mostly ...

A massive flood of the Tiber River would be devastating ... “It will be anything but what has been done at the national level,” Zanchini says. “In the recent past, the Ministry of ...

This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National ... Geographic magazine. Sergey Zimov, right, and his son, Nikita, run an Arctic research station in Cherskiy, Russia, along the Kolyma ...

Large, major storms like Milton and Helene also threaten people further inland; as Helene moved north, it caused catastrophic flooding over ... at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Since 2020, Shipek, along with Mexican biologists and legions of volunteers, has been scouring the river to estimate ... in the June 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine.

The Yangtze River Delta has emerged as a leader in China's economic landscape, with 35 of its 41 cities surpassing the national GDP growth average of 5.4 percent in the first quarter of 2025 ...

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information ...

BEIJING -- China's flood control authorities on Tuesday activated Level-IV emergency response measures in Jiangxi and Guizhou ...

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