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Yellow

The Yellow River, or Huang He, is China’s second-longest river after the Yangtze, with an estimated length of 5,464 km. Originating on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, it flows through nine provinces and empties into the Bohai Sea in Shandong province.

theme for world water day 2021 is 'valuing water'

What is the value of water in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region?

The challenge for us in the HKH region today on World Water Day 2021 is to consider afresh the critical role that water plays in our daily lives and in supporting living ecosystems

A view of receding flood waters in Srinagar city during the September 2014 flooding. [image: Athar Parvaiz]

Water dangers loom for South Asia

With glacier retreat, permafrost melt, and extreme rainfall events, ICIMOD’s HIMAP report suggests that the countries of the Hindu Kush Himalayas have to start cooperating far more closely, or pay a huge price

Sanjiangyuan dry region

Source of Mekong, Yellow and Yangtze rivers drying up

National park could help save the headwaters of the Tibetan plateau that are evaporating because of climate change, says geologist Yang Yong

The Yellow River: a history of China’s water crisis

Historian David Pietz argues China’s current water problems are deeply rooted in its past

Yellow River Diaries

One of China’s leading environmentalists has spent the past decade documenting the impact of development along the country’s ‘Mother river’

Video: Abandoned Tibetan Mastiffs

Tibetan Mastiffs

Tibetan Mastiffs: Abandoned and dangerous

Climate adaptation

Vulnerable communities will suffer if China does not step up adaptation efforts

Tibet’s pilot national park: a land of golden opportunity?

Nature modernized: Birds and people in China’s Yellow River Delta Reserve

All eyes on China’s 13th Five-Year Plan for energy

Xiaolangdi Dam on the Yellow River, Henan Province (Photo by Sjonnie van der Kist )

The Water Kingdom: A Secret History of China – book review

South China faces worst floods in decades

Water pollution

Clear as mud: how poor data is thwarting China’s water clean-up

Coal is parching the planet as well as cooking it, says new report

desert landscape of Xinjiang

Xinjiang ban on glacier tourism ignores the bigger problem

China’s bottled water industry poses new threat to precious resources

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