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 ...

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 ...

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 ...