With the construction of the 'Three Gorges Dam' and the accompanying largest power station in the world, China has ensured ...

Ancient Chinese poems provided insights into the decline of the critically endangered Yangtze River's finless porpoise. A ...

The dam is an engineering colossus—more than ... for her book Yangtze Remembered. "The Yangtze River" Courtesy of Flickr user sullivan_ng. "Yangtze Fall." Courtesy of Flickr user Quiltsalad.

This map of the Yangtze River basin shows the major dams and the spawning grounds of the Chinese sturgeon. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases ...

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 ...

the role played by the massive and controversial Three Gorges Dam - designed to help tame the Yangtze river - has come under fresh scrutiny. Amid some of the heaviest rainfall on record ...

Endemic to China's Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless porpoise is known for its intelligence and charismatic appearance; it ...

And then the spring snowmelt would come, and the water would rise, and all that history would disappear once more beneath the timeless river. Now that the dam is closed, the Yangtze no longer ...

“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 ...

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The porpoises likely disappeared from the Yangtze's lakes and tributaries as a direct result of dam constructions in the 1950s that blocked off movement to and from the river's mainstem.