Scientists studied more than 700 ancient Chinese poems that mention the Yangtze finless porpoise to determine its population ...

Yangtze finless porpoises only live in the middle-lower Yangtze River basin in eastern China ... industrial pollution in waterways, dams and sand mining in the adjoining lakes.

During the May Day holiday, Hubei province's tourism sector remained vibrant due to visa-free policies and outbound tax ...

This documentary-drama hybrid is one of the best new movies our critic’s seen this year. It draws on archival footage to tell ...

LHASA -- Chinese engineers extracted a 38.1-meter-long concrete core sample from a dam on Sunday. While setting a new ...

F or years, Jia Zhangke imagined that the film that would become Caught by the Tides would be his last. He had been capturing and archiving acres of footage since 2001— everythi ...

Six European and American tour groups, on average, visited the Three Gorges each day, drawn by the dramatic cliffs along the Yangtze River ... as the Three Gorges Dam and the Three Gorges Tribe ...

The dam will be 315 metres (about 1,033 feet) high when fully completed. It will be as high as a 100-storey skyscraper, ...

For centuries, the Yangtze porpoise was a common sight on the river it is named after. Now, the freshwater mammal is ...

which form the upper mainstream section of the Yangtze River. With a highest elevation of nearly 2,900 meters -- the dam will stand 217 meters tall and have an installed capacity of 2.24 million ...