Building mud barriers alongside rivers to prevent floods may have the opposite effect, suggests an analysis of flooding from the Yellow River in China. More extreme and frequent rainfall due to ...

ZHENGZHOU -- The Yellow River is likely to flood this rainy season from July to October, the China Meteorological Administration has warned. Rainfall was expected to increase by 20 to 50 percent ...

The biggest flood crest since 1997 for the Yellow River's Shandong section, arrived at this provincial capital city of Jinan Thursday morning. At 2:00 a.m. Thursday, the flood crest reached the ...

The mighty Yellow River has earned the name “China’s sorrow” for its tendency to flood, with devastating consequences, over the centuries. Now an international group of scientists say they ...

OSLO (Reuters) - The crushed skeletons of children point to an earthquake and catastrophic flood on China's Yellow River 4,000 years ago that could be the source of a legendary "Great Flood" at ...

The discovery marks the end of a nine-year journey for Wu, who first noticed evidence for the flood in 2007 after examining the Jishi Gorge, an upstream river valley for the Yellow River.

The biggest-ever flood crest since 1997 for the Yellow River's Shandong section, arrived at this provincial capital Thursday morning. At 2:00 a.m. Thursday, the flood crest reached the Aishan ...