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Rising temperatures over the next few decades will unleash storms, floods and drought across China's Yangtze River Basin, a new report says, raising the prospect of catastrophe for a region that is home to nearly a third of the country's population.
Chinese and Swiss scientists said Friday the Yangtze River is less polluted than expected, but only because the vast amounts of water dilute farm and industrial waste that still pose a serious threat to animals and plants.
Ganga river pollution in India- A brief report.Most ancient civilizations grew along the banks of rivers. Even today, millions of people all over the world live on the banks of rivers and depend on them for their survival...
Dolphin Language : Picture Words Transmitted via Sound"I have long held the belief that the dolphin brain, comparable in size with our own, has specialized in processing auditory data in much the same way that the human brain has specialized in processing visual data.
China's Three Gorges Dam tested as water risesRising water levels in China's giant Three Gorges Dam have triggered dozens of landslides in recent months, damaging houses, land and infrastructure worth millions of dollars, state media said on Thursday.
Mammals Facing Extinction Threat | BBC NEWSAt least 25% of the world's mammal species are at risk of extinction, according to the first assessment of their status for a decade. More Articles
How Much Nature is Enough?We are bulldozing the Garden of Eden, and the first large animal has fallen.
August 8, 2007 became a watershed because of the deplorable news of the probable extinction of the legendary 'Goddess of the Yangtze', the Baiji or 'Yangtze Dolphin'.
China's Three Gorges Dam poses major environmrental threatChina's Three Gorges Dam could trigger an environmental catastrophe unless emerging problems are treated urgently, senior officials have warned.
Rare river dolphin 'spotted' in China - earth - 30 August 2007 - New Scientist EnvironmentA rare dolphin, thought to be extinct, may have been sighted swimming in the Yangtze River in China. But scientists fear that even if the sighting of the Baiji, or Yangtze river dolphin, is confirmed it may be too late to bring the species back from the dead.
The Shield of Achilles: China's Crime and Why it Must Not be RepeatedChina has allowed its river dolphin to become extinct. Even with tremendous population pressures, China could have prevented this. Allowing extinctions should be considered a crime.
Yangtze Flood Alert As Tibetan Glaciers MeltVast amounts of snow have melted on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, where the Yangtze originates, the paper said, attributing the unusually warm winter to El Nino, the abnormal warming of surface ocean waters in the eastern Pacific.
ABC News: China: Yangtze Is Irreversibly PollutedChina's massive Yangtze river, a lifeline for tens of millions of people, is seriously polluted and the damage is almost irreversible, a state-run newspaper said Monday.
Water Shortages Threaten Over A Million As Yangtze Water Level Dipsby Staff Writers Chongqing, China (AFP) March 08, 2007 More than a million people in one of China's biggest inland cities are facing water shortages after the level of the Yangtze river dropped to near historic lows, local authorities said Thursday.
White dolphin extinct after 20 million yearsThe dolphin lives in the Yangtze River. Or did, rather. :(
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