Chinese authorities issued more flood warnings for China’s Yangtze River on Friday ... “effectively reducing the speed and extent of water level rises on the middle and lower reaches of ...

Dams are a big issue too. More than 50,000 dams have been built in the Yangtze basin since 1950, and more are planned. Dams divert and disrupt the natural flows of the river, which affects wildlife ...

In 2020, unusually heavy rains led to the Three Gorges Dam in ... 2,700 water-level monitoring stations and more than 37,000 rainfall stations are collecting data in the Yangtze River basin.

The Three Gorges Project, the world's largest hydropower dam, will be environmentally friendly and will not destroy the ecological systems of the Yangtze River area, where the dam is being built ...

SHANGHAI--Water levels at China’s giant Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river are inching closer to their maximum after torrential rains raised inflows to a record high, official data showed on ...

There is little relief in sight, and the Yangtze River is now above flood level ... structures of the massive Three Gorges Dam deformed due to the building water pressure. Stunning pictures ...

with temperatures exceeding 40 degrees for over a month mainly in the middle and downstream areas of the Yangtze River. The lack of rain has also put the nation in its most severe drought in ...

Chinese authorities have declared a yellow alert as the country continues to be hit by a persistent drought following weeks of high temperatures that have dried up parts of the Yangtze river ...

There is excellent cell phone coverage at the bottom of the Yangtze River, although Huang Dejian ... emerged only in winter, when the water level dropped. Low-water season was treacherous for ...

The death knell for the species probably came with the construction of the first dam on the Yangtze River, the Gezhouba Dam, which began operating in the late 1980s. The dam, located about ...