This map of the Yangtze River basin shows the major dams and the ... or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.

One of Asia's busiest waterways needs help to restore smooth sailing and boost regional economies, experts say China's ...

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 ...

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 ...