This map of the Yangtze River basin shows the major dams and the spawning grounds of the Chinese sturgeon. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases ...

live in the area covered by the Yangtze’s river basin. The Yangtze basin provides about half of all the fish eaten in China, and two-thirds of the rice. Industries and farming there contribute as much ...

The Yangtze River basin – with its fertile soil, highly developed agriculture and abundant mineral deposits – is densely populated with more than 400 million mu of cultivated land or about one ...

More information: Peng Yang et al, Wetland and habitat dynamics in the evolving landscape of the Middle Yangtze River Basin, Journal of Geographical Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1007/s11442-025-2314-7 ...

An Asahi Shimbun reporter walked along the dry riverbed of the Yangtze River basin. The thermometer on his smartphone showed 42 degrees, exceeding the highest temperature ever recorded in Japan.

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 ...