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 ...

New research has found the first evidence that large rivers control desert sands and dust in Northern China. New research published today in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews has found the first ...

A photo shows the Yellow River passing through Gansu province, where the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Loess Plateau meet. [Photo by Tian Manchao/For China Daily] BEIJING - China has made remarkable ...

The movement of desert sands and dust in Northern China is controlled by one of the world’s largest rivers, new research has discovered. Analysis of individual grains of wind-blown dust deposited in ...

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 ...

This article series explores 12 distinct “regions” within China: six “core” regions long dominated by the majority Han ethnic group and six “periphery” regions home to many of China’s ethnic ...

Flooding in China’s Yellow River became 10 times more frequent in the last 1,000 years than in several previous millennia, and it cannot be blamed on climate change, a new study has shown. Around 80 ...