Chinese authorities issued more flood warnings for China’s Yangtze River on Friday, as heavy rains were forecast in provinces in the country’s south. At least 141 people have died or are ...

Biqiong Wu is at the Hubei Key Laboratory of Intelligent Yangtze and Hydroelectric Science, China Yangtze Power Company, Yichang, China.

Here come the floods While lakes are shrinking, river flooding seems to be increasing. Floods have long been a part of the Yangtze’s history, but the 1990s saw some of the worst disasters. In the ...

The 1931 China Floods rank among the deadliest natural disasters ever recorded. Heavy rain and unusually heavy snowmelt caused the Yangtze River, along with other major rivers like the Yellow and ...

do not fully understand the importance of 'placing the restoration of the ecological environment of the Yangtze River in an overwhelming ... including frequent floods and drought.

SHANGHAI--Water levels at China’s giant Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river are inching closer to ... double the seasonal average this year. The floods had caused nearly 180 billion yuan ...

China’s worst floods in recent years were in 1998, when more than 2,000 people died and almost 3 million homes were destroyed, mostly along the Yangtze, China’s mightiest river. The government ...

Sampans by Hankou bund during 1931 floods, Wuhan. Collected by John ('Jack') William Ephgrave, available at Historical Photographs of China under reference number Ep01-262, University of Bristol.

A team of students from the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics has developed an artificial intelligence-based ...

Now climate change is threatening to bring more droughts, floods and extreme weather events to the river basin, and dry up more of its lakes. It all adds to the challenges we’re tackling to help ...