The Yellow River, China's second-longest river, transports more sediment than any major river in the world. Centuries of silt accumulation have diminished reservoir capacity and elevated its riverbed, ...

Northern China is pictured is this week’s image from the Envisat satellite. The North China Plain dominates the image, bordered on the north and west by mountains, with the Yellow Sea to the east.

The Yellow River, which stretches from the Tibetan Plateau to the Bohai Sea in China, is so called because of the color lent by massive amounts of suspended sediments along its 5,400-kilometer length.

In Dongying, Shandong province, the Yellow River Delta brings a new layer of life – endless reed seas, shimmering wetlands, ...

The Yellow River, the world’s sixth-longest and most sediment-laden, occupies a singular place in Chinese history and national identity. It is often associated with great misery caused by its flooding ...

The Huang He in China is known as the Yellow River. It is one of the most important rivers in Asia and plays a major role in ...

Building mud barriers alongside rivers to prevent floods may have the opposite effect, suggests an analysis of flooding from the Yellow River in China. More extreme and frequent rainfall due to global ...

As dusk falls in Baotou, north China's Inner Mongolia, ice drifts quietly on the golden Yellow River, creating a unique sunset spectacle of the winter. #YellowRiver #sunset ...

After winter's first snowfall blanketed east China's Shandong Province, a spectacular frost smoke appeared over a section of ...