Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information ...

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 (Changjiang), over 6,300 kilometers long, is the largest and longest river in China, and the third-longest in the world, next only to the Nile in northeast Africa and the Amazon in ...

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 about half of all the fish eaten in ...

Researchers looked at poetry dating as far back as the Tang dynasty to find that the Yangtze finless porpoise’s range has ...

A visitor takes photos of the fire rescue outfits on display during the fourth Yangtze River Delta International Emergency ...

For centuries, the Yangtze porpoise was a common sight on the river it is named after. Now, the freshwater mammal is ...

The porpoise is critically endangered. Ancient Chinese poems reveal the animal’s range has dropped about 65 percent over the past 1,400 years.

When reviewing the photos, he saw something he had not 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.

[Photo/VCG] An ecological barrier and a golden waterway, the Yangtze River plays an important role in China's socioeconomic development. Accounting for 43.1 percent of the nation's total ...

(Xinhua/Wang Xiang) A visitor takes photos of the fire rescue outfits on display during the fourth Yangtze River Delta International Emergency Disaster Reduction and Rescue Expo in Shanghai ...