Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information ...

Along the Yangtze River, ecological restoration has been in process through the principle of "enhancing conservation while ...

Endemic to China’s Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless porpoise is known for its intelligence and charismatic appearance; it ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A team of scientists in China turned to an unusual source to track the population of the Yangtze River’s finless porpoises ...

The porpoise is critically endangered. Ancient Chinese poems reveal the animal’s range has dropped about 65 percent over the past 1,400 years.

Nearly 4,000 miles long, the Yangtze has watered civilizations for millennia—and laid waste to them too. The eighth-century poet Li Bai wrote that navigating the river was "even harder than ...

A third of all the inhabitants of China (which means more than 400 million people) live in the area covered by the Yangtze’s river basin. The Yangtze basin provides about half of all the fish eaten in ...