China's 1.2 trillion yuan Tibet mega-dam project drove iron ore prices to four-month highs near US$100/tonne and pushed ...

Construction on the Yangtze also fragmented the paddlefish's habitat. In 1970, China began building the Gezhouba Dam in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, slicing the population in two.

Water levels on the main trunk of the Yangtze and the flood basin lakes of Dongting and Poyang are now at least 4.85 metres (16 feet) shallower than normal, and the lowest on record for the period ...

With a 10-year fishing ban along the Yangtze River set to take effect next month, agricultural authorities said that nearly all of the 231,000 fishermen affected by the ban have stopped fishing ...

Nearly 4,000 miles long, the Yangtze has watered civilizations for millennia—and laid waste to them too. The eighth-century poet Li Bai wrote that navigating the river was "even harder than ...

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.

The number of finless porpoises in the Yangtze river halved from 3,600 in the 1990s to 1,800 in 2006 and by 2012 there were 1,045 left. But the decline stopped around 2017 and in the five years ...

Beijing - A new WWF study finds that many Yangtze River Basin lakes are shrinking dramatically and could dry up completely if measures aren’t taken to stem the impacts of climate change, increased ...

Sightings of the Yangtze finless porpoise inferred from five poems written during the Tang Dynasty, combined with more recent data, represent the animal’s range during that time. Zhang et al ...

Hundreds of bodies have been recovered from cruise ship that capsized Tuesday in the Yangtze River, China’s state-run news agency reported Saturday.

A team of scientists in China turned to an unusual source to track the population of the Yangtze River’s finless porpoises: ancient poems. The writings samples written over the past 1,400 years ...

Yangtze giant softshell turtles are native to China. According to the BBC, the species’ numbers dwindled due to habitat loss, overfishing, and hunting.