The Yellow River, known as China's "mother river" and the cradle of Chinese civilization, supplies water to 12 percent of China's population and irrigates 17 percent of the country's arable land.

China Floods Imagine a wall of water sweeping across vast expanses, leaving devastation in its wake. That's exactly what ...

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 ...

BEIJING--China’s military has blasted a dam to release ... It is crisscrossed by multiple waterways, many of them linked to the Yellow River, which has a long history of bursting its banks ...

capital of China, Dec 24, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua] BEIJING -- The Chinese government has pledged more efforts to protect the ecosystem of the Yellow River, the country's second-longest river ...

The first part of this ongoing project looked at China’s coal industry and the effect it’s had on the country. Since 2011 I’ve been working on the second part: following the Yellow River ...

with its epicentre located near the source of the Yellow River, the main natural waterway serving northern China. The vast Qinghai-Tibetan plateau has been jolted by seismic activity since Tuesday ...

About a dozen people have been reported killed in floods or rain-induced mudslides ... is expected to decrease in north China and regions between the Yellow River and the Huaihe River, the centre ...

BEIJING — A magnitude 5.5 earthquake shook parts of the Chinese province of Qinghai on Wednesday (Jan 8), with its epicentre located near the source of the Yellow River, the main natural ...