Dozens of coastal regions around the world, including Jakarta, Lagos and Tianjin are sinking at an alarming rate.

China accounted for about 5 percent, or $441.8 billion, of the $8.8 trillion in public external debt owed by all low- and middle-income countries, according to data from the World Bank's 2024 report ...

The Xizang autonomous region remains one of the best places in the world in terms of its ecological environment, with ...

BEIJING -- China is set to establish a unified cross-basin ecological compensation mechanism for the mainstreams of the Yangtze and Yellow rivers by 2027, as part of its broader efforts to improve ...

For comparison, the Golden Gate Bridge in California is just 220 feet above the water level, almost 10 times lower than its ...

Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing ...

On May 24, the 7th Smart Sensor Industry Development Conference kicked off in Bengbu, Anhui Province and attracted over 700 experts and enterprise representatives. The event has been held in Bengbu ...

In China, populations of the Yangtze finless porpoise have declined over the past 1,400 years. Detailed surveys of its range ...

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. Implemented in ...

hoping to map its historical distribution and thus better understand threats to this fragile subspecies. Found exclusively in China’s Yangtze River, it is the world’s only freshwater porpoise.

The Yangtze is the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world, stretching 6,300 km from the Tanggula Mountains of the Tibetan Plateau until it spills out into the East China Sea near ...

the Yangtze in China, Ganges River, India. There is often confusion and debate about which is the longest river in the world. Let us discuss in detail which is the longest river in the world?