China's longest river may be starting to shake off decades of abuse. The Yangtze, once choked by pollution and overfishing ...

Married in 1995, Chen, known locally as San Jie, or "third sister", spent more than two decades living aboard a modest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of China's two major rivers is "pirating" water from the other, according to new research. Over the past 1.7 million years, ...

A fishing ban on China's Yangtze River has led to a remarkable recovery of biomass in the waterway. The 6,300-kilometer (3,900-mile) river, Asia's longest, had for decades been an environmental ...

"She celebrates every birthday on the Yangtze River; however, we were too busy to go ashore and buy a cake," said Liu Ge, her mother. What makes this year different is the low-altitude instant ...

China's decade-long fishing ban shows early ecological recovery signs. Eight fish species exhibited significant increases in ...

Decades of rapid economic development without effective ecological protection once made the Yangtze "seriously ill," as the ...

Recently, Sanxingdui Museum in Sichuan and Jinsha Site Museum in Chengdu held events marking the 40th anniversary of ...

Rivers are the cradle of human civilization. From the cuneiform writing of Euphrates and Tigris to the pyramids along the Nile, and from the urban grids of the Indus to the rice cultivation heights of ...

British-Chinese photographer Yan Wang Preston describes the process of documenting the full 6,211 km of the Yangtze River as “four years of blood, sweat and tears.” Between 2010 and 2014 she made nine ...