The largest river in China and the third largest river in the world, the 6,300-kilometer-long Yangtze River plays an important role in China. The Yangtze River basin – with its fertile soil ...

This map of the Yangtze River basin shows the major dams and the spawning grounds of the Chinese sturgeon. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases ...

Here’s how big the Yangtze is. A third of all the inhabitants of China (which means more than 400 million people) live in the area covered by the Yangtze’s river basin. The Yangtze basin provides ...

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 river’s finless porpoise is one of the very few porpoises (relatives of dolphins and whales) that live in fresh water. Its small size and cute 'smile' make it much loved in China and ...

Thanks to sustained conservation efforts, sightings of finless porpoises along the Yangtze river have grown increasingly ...

When reviewing the photos, he saw something he hadn’t noticed before: A mountain shaped like a dog’s head rested on the ground next to the Yangtze River, its snout perched at the water’s edge.

This story appears in the March 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. There is excellent cell phone coverage at the bottom of the Yangtze River, although Huang Dejian is one of the few ...

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 ...