Read about the Yangtze River below, then click on the main image to begin a slideshow about the region. Origin: Starting in the Kunlun Mountains of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China's Yangtze River ...
The first Living Yangtze Report describes health of the river and recommends how to improve it. The world’s freshwater ecosystems are in crisis. WWF’s Living Planet Report 2020 found that freshwater ...
Living Yangtze 2022 report shows clear improvements in health indicators along the river A healthy Yangtze River is critical to China’s future, says Kirsten Schuijt, Director General of WWF ...
Rivers are the cradle of human civilization. From the cuneiform writing of Euphrates and Tigris to the pyramids along the Nile, and from the urban grids of the Indus to the rice cultivation heights of ...
Yang Jin was taking his daily walk along the Yangtze river, close to the Three Gorges Dam, when he spotted something worrying in the water. The 67 year-old pensioner has cultivated a hobby of ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Yangtze River in China has done a good job of hiding its real age — it is nearly 40 million ...
The Yangtze River in China is the longest river in Asia, the third longest river in the world and the longest river to flow entirely in one country. The river begins its journey in the glacial ...
The Yangtze River dolphin, one of the world’s rarest mammals, is no more, a victim of China’s breakneck economic growth and competition for food with one of the world’s most common large mammals — ...
They called it the “Goddess of the Yangtze” – a creature so rare that it was believed to bring fortune and protection to local fishermen and all those lucky enough to spot it. But overfishing and ...
Once a delicacy eaten by Chinese emperors, one of the world's largest freshwater fish just went extinct. Nicknamed the "water tiger" and "panda of the Yangtze," the Chinese paddlefish is reportedly ...
SHANGHAI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--China's latest intelligent shield tunneling technology has been successfully applied in the Chongtai Yangtze River Tunnel, a key project for the Shanghai-Chongqing-Chengdu ...