A 420-kilometer-long, 3-kilometer-wide "Green Great Wall" of forests will soon span the Kubuqi Desert, forcibly severing the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Great Wall of China crosses the Yellow River in several places ... The region’s inhabitants have built extensive systems of levees and irrigation works in an attempt to control the river’s flow.

including ancient levees built around 2000 BCE. Today, the Yellow River remains a vital source of irrigation, power generation, and historical insight for China. The Yenisei, extending around 5,539 ...

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 ...

In June, dozens of people were killed and some 33 rivers in China “exceeded ... potential damages should the levee breach. The effect, according to the Nature paper, is a key challenge in the densely ...

After decades of planning, construction has begun on a massive new dam on China’s Yellow River in the latest water management project aimed at controlling increasing sediment in the world’s ...

The river, the second longest in China, supports lives and livelihoods in nine northern provinces. It is also a critical biodiversity corridor in the East Asian-Australasian and Central Asian flyways ...

YINCHUAN -- As the river chief of a 2.3-km-long section of the Yellow River near her village, Wang Ruolan has a habit of taking a stroll along the riverbank and picking up garbage when on patrol.

That would be reminiscent of how in 1938, during China’s war of resistance against Japan, then-Chinese president Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) ordered levees at Huayuankou on the Yellow River to be breached ...