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Yangtze Finless Porpoise: The World's Only Freshwater Porpoise
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe Yangtze finless porpoise lacks the dorsal fin that you'd typically find on a marine cetacean....
PHOTOS: Drought consumes China's most vital waterway, revealing historic structures and riverbeds
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Guanyin Pavilion seen in the summers of 2020 (left) and 2022 (right).Zheng Ziyan/China News...
Heatwaves hammer megacities in China's Yangtze River basin
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSearing heatwaves swept across China's vast Yangtze River basin on Wednesday, hammering densely...
Years before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan sank a US warship in China
CNN via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIt’s a day seared into America’s collective memory: December 7, 1941. The day Imperial Japanese...
2022 was the year of drought
NBC News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIt was a year characterized by extreme drought. From North America to Africa to Europe to Asia, huge swaths of the planet were parched in 2022. Lakes and...
Iconic Chinese paddlefish and wild Yangtze sturgeon officially declared extinct
NextShark via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe International Union for Conservation of Nature has officially verified that the Chinese...
Where does the Mississippi River start, where is it deepest, answers to key questions about one of...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 6 months agoWisconsin has one of the world's most important bodies of water right next door. Nope, we're not...
Typhoon Muifa pounds eastern China with strong gales, rain
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBEIJING (Reuters) -Powerful gales and torrential rains battered Zhoushan in eastern China on...
Some like it hot: Eating spicy in China's WWII shelters
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe city of Chongqing, dubbed one of China's four “furnace” cities, is known for both soaring...
China issues first national drought alert, battles to save crops in extreme heatwave
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoChina has issued its first national drought alert of the year as authorities battle forest fires and...