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 ...

Coal fly ash is a major carbon flux in the Chang Jiang (Yangtze River) basin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2021; 118 (21): e1921544118 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1921544118 Cite This ...

Map of the Yangtze River Delta, within which the Tai Lake Basin is characterised by low-lying lands. Source: Nolf et al., Delta Management in Evolution: A Comparative Review of the Yangtze River ...

Li Yisong, law professor at Hohai University in Nanjing, told Sixth Tone that the conflict between environmental protection and economic development has been a main source of debate during the making ...

The Yangtze River is the longest river in Asia. It is approximately 3,915 miles (6,300 kilometers) long, the third longest river in the world. Skip to main content ...

One of best known poems mentioning the Yangtze River is the piece by Li Zhiyi, who lived in the 11th and 12th centuries which goes, "I live near the river's source, and you live where the river ends.

It comes from River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (HarperCollins, 402 pp., $26), ... Maps are simple but adequate and the book compensates for what it lacks in sophisticated design with an ...

The Oriental Star, a cruise ship carrying 456 people, capsized on the Yangtze River on the night of June 1 in high winds and heavy rain. About four and a half hours before the accident, a local ...