Water allocations for the Yellow River Basin’s nine provinces. A 1987 plan to allocate and enforce specific allotments of water to each of the 9 provinces in the Yellow River Basin is based on an ...

China will build three more large-scale reservoirs on the troublesome Yellow River, the nation's second-longest river, after authorities gave a green light to a harnessing plan earlier this month.

As part of their China Green project, Asia Society has released a new documentary about the Yellow River. Watch it here: The Yellow River, also known as “China’s Sorrow,” often doesn’t ...

Interactive infographic: Click through the map of pollution level in China’s seven major river basins. Click on a river or a basin for a breakdown of water quality. Click through the years to see how ...

This month's National Geographic has a great piece on the Yellow River in China, that erstwhile cradle of civilization that now sustains more than 150 million people and is in danger of both ...

China Dialogue: In the introduction, you write that the 12th-century Yujitu (“Map of Yu’s Traces”) is one of the inspirations for the book. You don’t explain why. How did it inspire you? Ruth Mostern: ...

The breathtaking "Tree of the Earth" landscape along a section of the Yellow River in Pinglu county of Yuncheng, Shanxi ...

China is building another mega dam on Yellow River: https://sc.mp/0wae Preventing natural disasters from the Yellow River has been the goal of every Chinese ruler since ancient times, and the ...

The whole Yellow River valley will dry up. The impact on crops would be dramatic. Scientists predict yields in China's main wheat growing region could fall by 20% to 40%. This would force China to ...

China's mighty Yellow River has always been a cruel and capricious neighbor to the 140 million people—a fourth of China's populace—who live near its banks. In the past 3,000 years ...