Cruising the Yangtze River was amazing and is a growing adventure as are cruises in general.
The Yangtze river dolphin made news because scientists think that it may now have been driven to extinction.
With the current situation of ecology and environment in the Yangtze river, man assistant measures have to be taken.
This year, two EDGE species the long-eared jerboa and the Yangtze river dolphin have made global news for very different reasons.
Mainland geologist Yang Yong says the controversial Three Georges hydropower project on the Yangtze River may have triggered the earthquake.
One afternoon that spring, I received a call from Jimmy, who was teaching in a village near the Yangtze River.
After passing through downtown Shanghai, the Huangpu empties into the Yangtze River.
Nadav Kander's images of China's Yangtze River depict communities adjusting to the changes caused by the re-routing of the country's largest river.
In the meantime, some areas in the Yangtze River delta have moved faster than the Pearl River delta to improve conditions for migrants.
He was acquiring an offshore island across the Yangtze River from Shanghai meant to become the most fully energy self-sustaining eco-city in the world.
The construction of the Gezhouba dam in 1981 on the Yangtze river also created a barrier to the migrating fish which further affected fish stocks.
After passing through downtown Shanghai, it empties into the Yangtze River.
Authorities also said that no damage was observed at the massive Three Gorges Dam, located on the Yangtze River, several hundred kilometres east of the epicentre.
Like the Great Wall or, more recently, the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River it's a classic imperial project, still possible under China's one-party system.
The new bird flu virus outbreak continues to dominate media headlines, as China Central Television reports 14 diagnosed cases and five deaths in the Yangtze River Delta region.
In May and June, heavy rains in the basin of the Yangtze river had created an enormous flow of fresh water, and this jet had sluiced the jellyfish towards Japan.
Wednesday, the Chinese Academy of Sciences said the H7N9 virus probably came from migratory birds from East Asia that mixed with domestic fowl in China's Yangtze River delta region around Shanghai.
CNN: WHO reports 5 new bird flu cases in China; total now 49
However, some of those projects, such as the gigantic Three Gorges project on the Yangtze River, due to start generating power in 2009, have created a separate set of environmental problems.
Now it is mainly flowing into Shanghai and other parts of the Yangtze river delta, where technology-savvy workers are easier to find and transport to foreign and domestic markets is convenient.
The Asian aesthetic is also referenced through proportions and scale, the naturalness of materials, meticulous attention to detail, decorative fabrics, silks, artwork and a Chinese granite hearth quarried from the Yangtze River.
The diversion project a massive government undertaking will bring billions of gallons of water from the Yangtze River in the south northward to Beijing and other parts of northern China.
Residents on the Jialing River, a tributary of the Yangtze River near the city of Chongqing, have been campaigning for years against a local chemical plant that they say is illegally polluting.
For example, after a severe drought in the Sichuan and Chongqing sections of the Yangtze River in 2006, tens of thousands of unemployed farmers moved to Xinjiang in China's far west to pick cotton.
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"The individuals born in the late 1980s and early 1990s should survive in the wild, since the Yangtze river system is large and it has some complicated habitats where the paddlefish could hide, " he says.
Beginning on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, people of several ethnic groups throughout China and the world celebrate the Dragon Boat festival, especially in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
The Beijing News backs a proposal by the capital's mayor to follow the example of the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta regions and set up a joint air pollution control system between Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei.
The film Red Cliff by director John Woo, the most expensive ever made in China, retells the story of a battle on the Yangtze river, as Cao Cao's navy is moored on one bank while Liu Bei and his accomplices are plotting on the other.
Both newspapers say the public also need answers on why the authorities did not report the first case of bird flu in Shanghai sooner, as well as the cause of death for thousands of pigs in the Yangtze River Delta and several sparrows in Nanjing in recent weeks.
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