China’s Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest hydroelectric dam, is an absolute beast of an infrastructure project. If you've ...

Here’s how big the Yangtze is. 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 ...

Lanzhou (bottom)—the first big city near the river’s headwaters, downstream from coal mining and processing operations—may have some of the most polluted water in China. Near a factory on ...

Glacial melt plays its most vital role before and after the rainy season, when it supplies a greater portion of the flow in every river from the Yangtze (which irrigates more than half of China's ...

A video of a fast-flowing river in northern China has been shared in social media posts that falsely claimed it showed water ...

On the evening of July 31, 1976, residents of Big Thompson ... site where river flow for thousands of rivers across the Unites States can be viewed in real-time on a color coded map.

Wildlife officials hunting for an invasive species were surprised recently when a catfish they pulled from a Missouri river had just the creature they were looking for trapped in its throat. In ...

Vietnam's capital of Hanoi evacuated thousands of people living near the swollen Red River as its waters rose to a 20-year ...

A month-long heatwave and record low rainfall have resulted in an unprecedented drought along the Yangtze, China's longest ... low production. In big cities sited along the river, Shanghai is ...

The Fall 'Season of Meteor Showers' may include rare astronomical treats ...

We’re going to get loads of information for our Rivers project. Big climb ahead though ... we’ll be in Dundee! Look at the map. Rivers usually start somewhere high up, like mountains, and ...

That’s nearly twice as much water as the combined use of every city that relies on the river, including Phoenix, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. “We could wipe all of the cities off the map that are using ...