China has had a particularly long and terrible history of flooding. In the last 2000 years, the Yangtze River has flooded more than 1000 times. But it is the Hwang Ho or "Yellow River" that has ...

Biqiong Wu is at the Hubei Key Laboratory of Intelligent Yangtze and Hydroelectric Science, China Yangtze Power Company, Yichang, China.

Here come the floods While lakes are shrinking, river flooding seems to be increasing. Floods have long been a part of the Yangtze’s history, but the 1990s saw some of the worst disasters. In the ...

The 1931 China Floods rank among the deadliest natural disasters ever recorded. Heavy rain and unusually heavy snowmelt ...

do not fully understand the importance of 'placing the restoration of the ecological environment of the Yangtze River in an overwhelming ... including frequent floods and drought.

SHANGHAI--Water levels at China’s giant Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river are inching closer to ... double the seasonal average this year. The floods had caused nearly 180 billion yuan ...

China’s worst floods in recent years were in 1998, when more than 2,000 people died and almost 3 million homes were destroyed, mostly along the Yangtze, China’s mightiest river. The government ...

Now climate change is threatening to bring more droughts, floods and extreme weather events to the river basin, and dry up more of its lakes. It all adds to the challenges we’re tackling to help ...

Because its lower reached its dykes and caused 250 major floods in the five centuries ... the greater part of its water now flows into the Yangtze River and the rest into the Huanghai Sea through ...