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 ...

The idea for the Three Gorges Dam isn’t new. It dates back to 1919 when Sun Yat-sen, often called the father of modern China, proposed harnessing the power of the Yangtze River. He believed a ...

the role played by the massive and controversial Three Gorges Dam - designed to help tame the Yangtze river - has come under fresh scrutiny. Amid some of the heaviest rainfall on record ...

More than 50,000 dams have been built in the Yangtze basin since 1950, and more are planned. Dams divert and disrupt the natural flows of the river, which affects wildlife and people. During ...

There is little relief in sight, and the Yangtze River is now above flood level ... structures of the massive Three Gorges Dam deformed due to the building water pressure. Stunning pictures ...

In the last 2000 years, the Yangtze River ... but the river's thick silt has clogged many of them. Currently, the Chinese are constructing a massive new dam called the Xiaolangdi Multipurpose ...

Beijing, China (CNN)-- Heavy rain and flooding have exacted a high toll in China this year, and Friday the country faced a new threat from a swollen Yangtze River dam that was dangerously close to ...

And then the spring snowmelt would come, and the water would rise, and all that history would disappear once more beneath the timeless river. Now that the dam is closed, the Yangtze no longer ...

In April 1992, China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) formally approved the “Resolution on the Construction of the Yangtze River ... s biggest-ever river dam project.