Off the coast of Shanghai, near Hengsha, archaeologists recovered Yangtze No. 2, a wooden trading vessel that sank around 150 ...

It's a race against time to get a better understanding of what crews are up against with storms in the forecast, causing rivers to rise with the potential to carry debris.

Employees at the New Colgate Powerhouse in Yuba County were forced to evacuate Friday afternoon after a large water pipe failed, sending a surge of water through the facility and sparking a ...

Storm Nils has killed two people and kept parts of southwestern France on high flood alert as power crews race to restore electricity.

The Yangtze River Basin, a global biodiversity hotspot, has endured severe ecological degradation over several decades due to ...

Chinese scientists have recently quantified the correlation between prehistoric human population fluctuations and climate ...

The record reveals dramatic swings. Three dry intervals brought less than 700 millimeters of rain per year, while two wet ...

A new study involving researchers from Oxford's Department of Earth Sciences has finally solved the mystery of what caused ...

An international investigation, published in the journal National Science Reviews, has precisely determined the cause of the decline and diaspora of the Shijiahe culture, a complex civilization that ...

A seven hundred year old temple in the Yangtze River continues to survive floods through remarkable ancient engineering.