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

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 it has ...

The Yellow River Wildlife Sanctuary, located in Lilburn, recently opened a river otter exhibit with four otters rescued from Louisiana.

The Yellow River is also known as "China's sorrow". The name comes from its propensity to run wild, regularly inundating large swathes of the North China plain, and drowning tens of thousands of its ...

The Yellow River, the world’s sixth-longest and most sediment-laden, occupies a singular place in Chinese history and national identity. It is often associated with great misery caused by its flooding ...

Building mud barriers alongside rivers to prevent floods may have the opposite effect, suggests an analysis of flooding from the Yellow River in China. More extreme and frequent rainfall due to ...

The Yellow River estuary in Dongying, East China's Shandong Province, exhibits a distinct demarcation between seawater and river water. Photo: Courtesy of Zhao Liying An aerial view of the Yellow ...

On this day in 1938, the Yellow River experienced a major flood during the Second Sino-Japanese War when the Chinese Nationalist government deliberately destroyed the dikes along the river to halt ...

The Yellow River is regarded as the "Mother River" of the Chinese nation. For thousands of years, its basin has been a political, economic and cultural center in the long history of the Chinese ...

The Yellow River is the second longest river in China. The Yellow River valley was the birthplace of ancient Chinese civilization and the cradle of the Chinese nation. It has over 300 million mu ...

The images of a toxic-looking yellow river have stuck in the public’s mind, although the spill itself had a small environmental impact. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald file) ...