A female Yangtze giant softshell turtle is seen in the mud at Suzhou Zoo on May 6, 2015 in Suzhou, Jiangsu province of China. Visual China Group via Getty Images.

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 ...

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 ...

A scenic view of the cityscape in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in September 2024 Photo: Cao Siqi/GT The Yangtze and Amazon, two of the world's greatest rivers, have continuously nurtured thriving ...

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 ...

The Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis) is the world's only freshwater porpoise, known for its cute “smiley” face and marvelous melon-shaped head.Native to ...

Plunging water levels of the Yangtze River have revealed a submerged island in China’s southwestern city of Chongqing and a trio of Buddhist statues on it that are believed to be 600 years old ...

The baiji is thought to be the world's most endangered mammal Zoologists have developed a plan to save the Yangtze River dolphin, probably the world's most endangered mammal, from extinction. They ...

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information about the habitat of the world’s only freshwater porpoise Almost 300 ...

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 ...

The Yangtze basin, covering parts of 19 provinces, produces 45% of China's economic output, according to the World Bank. The national impact of shutdowns is limited, because Sichuan accounts for ...

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