"Since its construction, the Three Gorges Reservoir has successfully controlled flooding on almost 70 occasions, with a total ...

obstruct navigation and cause frequent floods. Over the past decades, much has been done to straighten out the convoluted section has been shortened by 80 kilometers. The lower Yangtze River ...

Chinese authorities issued more flood warnings for China’s Yangtze River on Friday, as heavy rains were forecast in provinces in the country’s south. At least 141 people have died or are ...

China has seen unusually high levels of rain this flood season, with southwest and central regions in the Yangtze river basin bearing the brunt of flooding. The Ministry of Water Resources said on ...

China has had a particularly long and terrible history of flooding. In the last 2000 years, the Yangtze River has flooded more than 1000 times. But it is the Hwang Ho or "Yellow River" that has ...

SHANGHAI--Floods on the upper reaches of China’s Yangtze river forced authorities to evacuate more than 100,000 people on Tuesday and threatened a 1,200-year-old world heritage site. Staff ...

Swimmers at gala in Hubei province, central China were pictured dodging corpse of a drowned man They were taking part in an annual event in the swollen Yangtze river Floods have forced tens of ...

The Three Gorges Dam is currently the largest hydropower complex built worldwide, its main objective was to generate electric power and manage the floods of the Yangtze River. However, as construction ...

Because its lower reached its dykes and caused 250 major floods in the five centuries ... the greater part of its water now flows into the Yangtze River and the rest into the Huanghai Sea through ...

Now climate change is threatening to bring more droughts, floods and extreme weather events to the river basin, and dry up more of its lakes. It all adds to the challenges we’re tackling to help ...