2023年5月27日 · The Yangtze River, a lifeline for hundreds of millions of people and home to a diverse range of species is now under severe threat due to pollution. A variety of pollutants have been detected in the river, including industrial waste, agricultural runoff, and a significant amount of plastic debris.

2024年6月19日 · Industrial wastewater discharge, agricultural chemical fertilizer, sediment accumulation, ship garbage and acid rain were the main Yangtze River pollution causes. Only in 2016, there were 35.32 billion ton waste water flowed into the Yangtze River.

2016年6月17日 · Drinking water & food concerns with high heavy metal discharge & ~65% of rice; Soil Ten hits 8/11 YREB regions. The Yangtze River spans 6,300km from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the West of China all the way to Shanghai on the eastern coast. As the longest river in China, it flows through very varied landscapes, both in terms of nature and economy.

2024年2月1日 · The Yangtze River (YR) is the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world, and is recognized as one of the most microplastic-polluted rivers globally. However, to date, no consistent and systematic risk assessment …

2023年9月24日 · The Yangtze River is also used by humans for its fresh water. The pollution in the river has made its water dangerous to drink and use with the water needing to be cleaned before human use. This creates a danger to human life and health. The map below explores human population by the river and river basin (blue)

2024年3月15日 · To address this knowledge gap, we conducted a large-scale catchment-wide investigation of the surface water in the Yangtze River, encompassing MPs (48 µm–5 mm) of the mainstream and 15 important tributaries. Tributaries and upstream regions exhibited relatively higher levels of MPs compared with the mainstream and different sections of the river.

2023年9月19日 · In this study, material flow and spatial analysis methods were used to evaluate and predict the spatial–temporal pattern evolution of agricultural and rural nitrogen (N) flow in the Yangtze...

China's Yangtze River is now so polluted that nearly half of the people who depend on it have no safe drinking water. It supports more than 400 million people and is unfortunately perhaps the most polluted river in the world, accounting for 55 percent of the material that ends up in neighboring seas and oceans.

Domestic sewage and pollutants from agricultural production and industrial discharge made the pollution situation in the reserve even worse. The quality of water in the reserve was so bad that it was rated below Grade V, the worst in China's five-tier …

2012年7月27日 · Yangtze water is heavily polluted by organic and inorganic compounds (such as metals, persistent organic pollutants, and agro-fertilizers) from new large-scale industrial, agricultural, and domestic developments (4).