To map this decline, researchers didn’t rely on modern surveys or fossil records. Instead, they sifted through 724 ancient poems. ... Landscape, Yangtze River, China, 2008.

The drought has already had a devastating effect on China’s most important river, which stretches an estimated 6,300 kilometers (3,900 miles) from the Tibetan plateau to the East China Sea near ...

A man walks along the lower than normal bank of the Jialing River in southwestern China's Chongqing Municipality, Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. Ships crept down the middle of the Yangtze on Friday after ...

[1/13] A tree trunk lies on the dried-up riverbed of the Jialing river, a tributary of the Yangtze, that is approaching record-low water levels in Chongqing, China, August 18, 2022.

China is suffering its worst drought on record as soaring temperatures dry up key parts of the Yangtze River, damaging crops and limiting drinking-water supplies in some central and southern ...

China's Yangtze river shrinks as heatwave, drought threaten crops. By Reuters. August 15, 2022 7:43 AM UTC Updated August 15, 2022 Ships sail on the Yangtze River near Badong, 100km ...

China warned it will face a “complex and severe” challenge to prevent floods over the coming week, with some of its major rivers under threat as the country entered the main season for ...

The Yangtze is said to be the “Mother River” of China, and is the country’s longest, passing 11 provinces along its 6,397km stretch. It is the world’s third longest river after the Nile ...

Yangtze River at record low as China attempts to ‘induce’ rainfall with cloud-seeding planes. Parts of China face historic heatwave and droughts while others are severely flooded.

The Yangtze River rises in the mountains of Qinghai province of China, on the Tibetan plateau, and flows 6,300km to reach the East China Sea at Shanghai. As China’s economy has developed, pollution in ...

So much of China's past lies on the Yangtze; now, a trip along the river also affords a glimpse of its future. Start on the coast: Shanghai has been a market town for a thousand years.

River ferries in Chongqing that usually are packed with sightseers were empty and tied to piers beside mudflats that stretched as much as 50 meters (50 yards) from the normal shoreline to the depleted ...