In recent days, the water level of a section of the Yellow River in Pinglu county of Yuncheng, Shanxi province, has receded ...

The Yellow River, regarded as the cradle of Chinese civilization, winds its way more than 5,000 kilometers from the Tibetan Plateau to its mouth in the Bohai Sea. SPIEGEL travelled the course of ...

Yellow River Pollution Is Price of Economic Growth All along China's mother river, serious air and water pollution — the high cost of China's breakneck industrial growth — is evident.

China's mighty Yellow River has always been a cruel and capricious neighbor to the 140 million people—a fourth of China's populace—who live near its banks. In the past 3,000 years ...

The Yellow River — China’s legendary cradle of civilization — is drying up. One day in 1972, as irrigation and industries in the north siphoned off more of its waters, the river failed to ...

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The Yellow River flows in a braided stream, a network of smaller channels that weave in and out of each other. "Think of the river coming into Henan like a loose hose," says Kidder.

Geologic Evidence May Support Chinese Flood Legend. A deluge that washed down the Yellow River nearly 4,000 years ago could be linked to the founding of China’s semi-mythical first dynasty.

“The Yellow River keeps running across my home, across Lanzhou. My relatives afar, listen to this ballad…” go the lyrics of the famous rock and roll song—Ballad of the Yellow River ...

"The Yellow River used to be host to more than 150 species of fish, but a third of them are now extinct, including precious ones," an official from the Agriculture Ministry told the People's Daily ...