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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

For example, the Three Gorges Dam created massive environmental and geological challenges, including disruptions to gravity anomaly maps ... Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in central China.

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 ...

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

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 ...