Floodwaters caused by continuous rains have damaged levees on the Yellow River and altered the course of the river by more than 100 meters in east China, say flood control authorities. The runoff ...

For thousands of years, nature has been blamed for the deadly floods of China's Yellow River ... s long-running efforts to tame the Yellow River with levees, dikes and drainage ditches actually ...

BEIJING (AP) — Breached levees have trapped more than ... Both the Yangtze, China’s mightiest river, and the Yellow River to the north have become engorged following torrential rains.

ST LOUIS, MISSOURI—Excavations at the Sanyangzhuang site and the Anshang site along China ... Yellow River,” archaeologist T.R. Kidder announced at Washington University. The large-scale ...

China has had a particularly long and ... Over the years, the Chinese have tried to control the Yellow River by building higher levees, digging channels and building dams. Dams have tended to ...

The Yellow River, known as China's "mother river" and the cradle ... standardized downstream levees, and flood retention areas at Dongping Lake and Beijin Dike. 3. Reinforcing Downstream Flood ...

China’s mighty Yellow River has always been a cruel and capricious neighbor to the 140 million people—a fourth of China’s populace—who live near its banks. In the past 3,000 years it has ...

The Yellow River, China’s second and the world ... in the 2,000-year history of flood control efforts in China. “If the levee was not fixed in time after a breach, the flow would either ...

To explore this, Shi-Yong Yu at Jiangsu Normal University in China and his colleagues analysed the frequency of floods on the Yellow ... along the river as flood barriers called levees, says ...

China's first list of the Yellow River water conservancy heritage has ... The 20 water conservancy heritage sites in the list include ancient levees, dangerous projects from ancient times, ancient ...

China is building another mega dam on Yellow River: https://sc.mp/0wae Preventing natural disasters from the Yellow River has been the goal of every Chinese ruler since ancient times, and the ...