Rivers often invoke charm and serenity; however, some are quite dreadful due to their nature, inhabitants, or both. Here are ...

The man, named Sun Wenzhu, started his rafting trip on June 6 by paddling an unpowered rubber dinghy by himself from the Jinsha River, the upper section of the Yangtze River. Rafting through the ...

For at least 1,400 years, poets in China have penned pieces about the Yangtze River’s sights and sounds. Now, scientists are using those artworks to reconstruct an animal’s past. “When we do ...

Activity at Chinese ports has rebounded since U.S. President Donald Trump and China’s leader Xi Jinping agreed to resume ...

It also looks like it’s quietly protecting the Yangtze River,” he said. Guo’s post on Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, or RedNote, received 120,000 likes within 10 days.

A top the frowning, canyon-like sides of the upper reaches of China’s mighty Yangtze River a strange procession last week inched its way westward. Strung out for miles along the cliffs, with the ...

Rainfall in the Yangtze River basin is down 45% below normal levels, and as many as 66 rivers in the Chongqing region are drying up. The heat wave plaguing the area isn’t expected to let up for ...

China warned it will face a “complex and severe” challenge to prevent floods over the coming week, with some of its major rivers under threat as the country entered the main season for ...

Regions that rely on the Yangtze, China's longest river, are having to deploy pumps and cloud-seeding rockets as a long drought depletes water levels and threatens crops, and a heatwave is set to ...

Item 1 of 13 A tree trunk lies on the dried-up riverbed of the Jialing river, a tributary of the Yangtze, that is approaching record-low water levels in Chongqing, China, August 18, 2022.