According to the data from the Yangtze River Hydrometric Station, the water levels of the Yangtze River have declined abnormally during the main flood period. Some hydrometric stations on the middle and lower reaches saw…
Category: Environment
After the earthquake and tsunami on March 11 triggered the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis in Japan, nuclear energy has once more come under the spotlight after a period of rehabilitation. China’s current energy system is…
Workers at a national natural reserve in Shishou, Hubei Privince attempts to help freshwater dolphins Friday whose lives were threatened by dangerously low water levels due to a severe drought. Photo: CFP Persistent drought in…
BEIJING / JINAN – East China’s Shandong province is about to launch a licensing system in an attempt to limit the availability of pesticides, because misuse of the agricultural chemicals is a major cause of…
BEIJING – The country’s environment watchdog has ordered the operation of one high-speed railway to stop and halted construction on a second over violations of environmental laws. The Ministry of Environmental Protection posted a notice…
The remains of a turtle lie on the dried riverbed of the Wuhan section of the Han River, a tributary of the Yangtze River, in Hubei Province. Photo: CFP The central government has for the…
In this photo taken on Thursday, June 23, 2005, Guhonda, a male adult mountain gorilla, in the Volcanos National Park in Rwanda.Gorillas in central Africa are in danger from illegal logging, mining and from hunters…
BEIJING – China said on Wednesday that the Three Gorges Project, the world’s biggest hydropower complex, had affected shipping, irrigation and water supply downstream on the Yangtze River. The disclosure came after the State Council…
A farmer on his dried field last week in Wuhan, China. Crops and drinking water have been threatened by a long drought. BEIJING — A severe drought along the Yangtze River region in central China…
In this April 29, 2011 photo, part of the Yangtze River’s river bed is exposed as water level lowered by drought, in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality. Much of central China is enduring its worst energy…