The Three Gorges Dam, China’s marvel on the Yangtze River, is one of the world’s ... The new ship lift raises and lowers boats using cables, a basin, motors—and simple gravity.

About 25 people are missing after a tug boat capsized in the Yangtze river in eastern China, state media report. The Xinhua news agency said the boat overturned on Thursday while it was conducting ...

There are many endangered species, but none has pulled our heartstrings quite like the Yangtze River finless porpoise ... subjecting them to collisions with boats. Yet another ominous threat ...

The government paid for a new house on the banks of the Daning River, a Yangtze tributary, but the brothers prefer to sleep on their boats, as they have done all their lives. They still make their ...

The Yangtze river’s finless porpoise is one of the very few porpoises ... The porpoises are at risk from the same threats that the Baiji faced – including loss of food sources and boat collisions.

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 ...