A new report, Strengthening the Climate Resilience and Restoration of Wetlands and Lakes in the Yangtze River Floodplain, published by the Asian Development Bank ... Wetlands, once sprawling and ...

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The river Yangtze flows for 6,300 km, more than halfway across China. Its river basin is around 1.8 million sq km - almost a fifth of China's land area ...

The Yangtze River has experienced severe ecological degradation due to intensive human activities, including dam construction, land reclamation, and overfishing. These disturbances have disrupted the ...

The country is also dealing with major pollution issues ... in Indian border areas. China’s previous projects like the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River have raised alarm bells over ...

In this study, we employed a single-boat bottom trawl to conduct four fishery resource surveys in April (spring), August (summer), October (autumn), and December (winter) of 2020 at ten sampling sites ...

If stronger action is not taken now, we could lose these species within our lifetime—a tragedy not just for biodiversity but for the planet as a whole.

The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River, China. Credit: Le Grand Portage / CC BY 2.0 China has approved plans to construct what is expected to become the world’s largest hydropower dam on the ...