Nearly 4,000 miles long, the Yangtze has watered civilizations for millennia—and laid waste to them too. The eighth-century poet Li Bai wrote that navigating the river was "even harder than ...

Yangtze finless porpoises only live in the middle-lower Yangtze River basin in eastern China. From the early 1980s until the 2010s, the population steeply declined an estimated 60%, according to a ...

In China, the Three Gorges dam project on the Yangtze River has diverted ... young son Will were gazing at a dried-up river bed during the searing drought of summer 2022 when the boy asked ...

Social Impacts of Drought-Induced River Decline Severe droughts ... in addressing the challenges posed by droughts. The Yangtze River in China has also been affected by severe droughts, leading ...

Endemic to China's Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless porpoise is known for its intelligence and charismatic appearance; it looks like it has a perpetual smile on its face. To track how this ...

Found exclusively in China’s Yangtze River, it is the world’s only freshwater porpoise. About 1,250 individuals are left in the wild. “Having access to past data allows us to detect when ...

A third of all the inhabitants of China (which means more than 400 million people) live in the area covered by the Yangtze’s river basin. The Yangtze basin provides about half of all the fish eaten in ...

Forests play a crucial role in mitigating climate change by acting as carbon sinks. However, accurately tracking the carbon dynamics of forests, especially in rapidly urbanizing regions, remains a ...

[Photo/VCG] An ecological barrier and a golden waterway, the Yangtze River plays an important role in China's socioeconomic development. Accounting for 43.1 percent of the nation's total ...

A heartwarming scene in Sichuan, China, in mid-April: low water levels had left many fish stranded among rocks along the Yangtze River – but a kind-hearted woman quickly came to the rescue.