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.

China has had a particularly long and terrible history of flooding. In the last 2000 years, the Yangtze River has flooded more than 1000 times. But it is the Hwang Ho or "Yellow River" that has ...

The first part of this ongoing project looked at China’s coal industry and the effect it’s had on the country. Since 2011 I’ve been working on the second part: following the Yellow River ...

MICHAEL WOOD:'This story is about China's Yellow River. MICHAEL WOOD:'The Yellow River is so big and so strong 'that every year in ancient times it killed thousands of people. MICHAEL WOOD:'So to ...