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 ...

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 ...

The idea for the Three Gorges Dam isn’t new. It dates back to 1919 when Sun Yat-sen, often called the father of modern China, proposed harnessing the power of the Yangtze River. He believed a ...

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.

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 ...

“This new ship is the first to take full advantage of the increased water level of the Yangtze as a result of the Three Gorges Dam,” spokesperson Larry Greenman said The world's largest river ...

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 ...

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 ...