China's rivers have seen more floods this year than in any year dating back to 1998, when such data was first collected, the ...

BEIJING, June 20 (Reuters) - Days of torrential rain, flash floods and landslides across southern China forced authorities to step up emergency plans, as surging waters from swollen rivers threatened ...

A new study has revealed how tiny microbes in rivers and wetlands across China help clean up excess nitrogen pollution, offering fresh insights into the health of freshwater ecosystems and the global ...

(Repeats to fix typo, paragraph 1) BEIJING, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Polluters along two of China's main rivers have defied over a decade of clean-up efforts, leaving much of the water unfit to touch, let ...

China has deployed flood-control and emergency response measures as Typhoons Maysak and Bavi are expected to bring heavy ...

Panic seized the community of international geo-strategy observers recently when it seemed Chinese ships would start sailing a remote strip of water near the Sea of Japan. The Moscow Times reported ...

Freshwater ecosystems have spent years under growing pressure from pollution, changing weather patterns and rising ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BEIJING (Reuters) -Twenty-five rivers in southwestern China exceeded safe levels on Thursday, state media said, after more than 10 ...