A massive acid leak from a Chinese-owned mine in Zambia contaminated the country’s most important waterway, threatening the livelihood and health of more than half the country’s population and forcing ...

where it empties into the East China Sea. Important cities along the way are Chongqing, Wuhan, Nanjing and Shanghai. With more than 700 tributaries, the Yangtze River system has a total catchment ...

At the mouth of the South China Sea behind Hong Kong, the Pearl River meets the ocean, pouring fresh water into the salty waves. The Pearl River Basin extends across southern China with smaller ...

A sizable portion of China’s population and heavy industry ... In Linfen, a city on a tributary of the Yellow River, a residential development (top)—built to serve a robust mining industry ...

Increased mega-dams along the Biobío River fragment the river, disrupt its flow, and undermine the human rights of communities who have relied on the river for millennia.

Authorities and environmentalists in Zambia fear the long-term impact of an acid spill at a Chinese-owned mine that poisoned a major river and could potentially affect millions of people after signs ...

China’s Yangtze River is the longest in Eurasia and the ... More than 52,000 reservoirs have been built on the Yangtze and its tributaries since the 1950s to mitigate flooding, generate ...