In 1887, the Huang He caused the deaths of 900,000 to two million during another of the river’s catastrophic flood events. A riverboat rests high and dry along the shore of the Yangtze River ...

The achievement can be attributed to a series of measures that were adopted last year to curb the discharge of pollutants into the river. Huang said 558 hazardous chemical plants in densely ...

Huang Runqiu, minister of Ecology and Environment, made the remark on Monday as he delivered a report on the protection of Yangtze River to an ongoing session of the Standing Committee of the 13th ...

Chinese Vice Premier Huang Ju on Monday urged provinces along the Yangtze River to work together to build the river into a "golden channel." The Yangtze River, the longest river in China, whose ...

image: This map of the Yangtze River basin shows the major dams and the spawning grounds of the Chinese sturgeon. view more . Credit: Huang & Wang / <i>Current Biology</i> ...

China already had a long history by the time its states were unified under its first emperor. Settlements in the Yellow and Yangtze River Valleys had grown into an agricultural civilization ...