Droughts are a natural phenomenon that can have devastating effects on the environment. In recent years, severe droughts have become more frequent, leading to a ... Read more The post How Severe ...

Chinese authorities have declared a yellow alert as the country continues to be hit by a persistent drought following weeks of high temperatures that have dried up parts of the Yangtze river ...

with temperatures exceeding 40 degrees for over a month mainly in the middle and downstream areas of the Yangtze River. The lack of rain has also put the nation in its most severe drought in ...

partly to a long drought this year, as sharply reduced surface flow brought much less silt into the 5,464 km long river, China's second largest after the Yangtze. To ease the widespread drought ...

The drought and heat have wilted crops and caused rivers including the giant Yangtze to shrink, disrupting cargo traffic. State media say the government will try to protect the autumn grain ...

[Photo/Xinhua] BEIJING -- China's top political advisor Wang Huning on Wednesday urged solid efforts to strengthen democratic oversight over the eco-environmental conservation of the Yangtze River.

SHANGHAI: Drought is shrinking crops from the US Farm Belt to China’s Yangtze River basin, ratcheting up fears of global hunger and weighing on the outlook for inflation. The latest warning ...

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 ...