At the mouth of the South China Sea behind Hong Kong, the Pearl River meets the ocean, pouring fresh water into the salty waves. The Pearl River Basin extends across southern China with smaller ...

Officials in Qinghai Province say rising levels in Ngoring Lake (top), in the Yellow River Basin, prove that environmental ... This is especially true on the North China Plain.

Biqiong Wu is at the Hubei Key Laboratory of Intelligent Yangtze and Hydroelectric Science, China Yangtze Power Company, Yichang, China. China’s Yangtze River is the longest in Eurasia and the ...

A third of all the inhabitants of China (which means ... built in the Yangtze basin since 1950, and more are planned. Dams divert and disrupt the natural flows of the river, which affects wildlife and ...