As recently as 20 years ago, there were an estimated 50,000 rivers in China, each covering a flow area of at least 60 square miles. But now, according to China's First National Census of Water ...

For years, China claimed to hold an estimated 50,000 rivers within its borders. Now, more than half of them have abruptly vanished. Last week, China’s Ministry of Water Resources announced the ...

Interactive infographic: Click through the map of pollution level in China’s seven major river basins. Click on a river or a basin for a breakdown of water quality. Click through the years to see how ...

Note: Map shows dams in the Mekong River basin as of December 2018, the most recent data available. Because construction and financing details are not always disclosed, China may have been ...

A research institute under Chinese Academy of Sciences has drawn a map of antibiotic-polluted rivers in China, which shows the Haihe River Basin in north China and the Pearl River Basin in the ...

A popular Chinese folk song tells of “a wide river with strong waves, where the wind blows the fragrance of paddy fields to the banks.” But such idyllic rivers in China may soon become a thing of the ...

The 324-mile Tumen River flows from northeast China to North Korea and, toward its end, Russia, ceded to the Russian Empire by China's Qing Dynasty in the 1860s.

Moving the rivers China’s most spectacular water project has been in the works for years. It’s an idea borrowed from Chairman Mao Zedong, the strongman founder of the People’s Republic.

Moving the rivers China’s most spectacular water project has been in the works for years. It’s an idea borrowed from Chairman Mao Zedong, the strongman founder of the People’s Republic.