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[84] [86] In September 2012, the Yangtze river near Chongqing turned red from pollution. [87] The erection of the Three Gorges Dam has created an impassable "iron barrier" that has led to a great reduction in the biodiversity of the river. Yangtze sturgeon use seasonal changes in the flow of the river to signal when is it time to migrate.
Yangtze civilization (simplified Chinese: 长江文明; traditional Chinese: 長江文明) is a generic name for various ancient Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures from the Yangtze basin in China, a contemporary civilization by the neighboring Yellow River civilization.
The earliest evidence of cultivated rice, found by the Yangtze River, was carbon-dated to 8,000 years ago. [10] Early evidence for millet agriculture in the Yellow River valley was radiocarbon-dated to about 7000 BC. [11] The Jiahu site is one of the best preserved early agricultural villages (7000 to 5800 BC).
The Ulan Moron begins as melt-off from the Geladandong glaciers and runs to a confluence with the Dangqu or Dam Chu River, where they form the Tongtian River, which subsequently becomes the Yangtze River. Although the Dangqu has been found to be the source of the Yangtze under the usual modern criteria, the Ulan Moron has been traditionally ...
The 1931 China floods, or the 1931 Yangtze–Huai River floods, occurred from June to August 1931 in China, ... The official report found 140,000 drowned [3] ...
(The Wu River (乌江) flows past Guizhou and empties into the Yangtze River at Fuling (涪陵), of Chongqing Municipality). Downstream, the Chuanjiang passes the Wu Mountains—the second ladder of the Chinese mainland—which form the Qutang Gorge ( 瞿塘峡 ), the Wu Gorge ( 巫峡 ), and the Xiling Gorge ( 西陵峡 ) along the Yangtze ...
Following surveys in the Yangtze River during the 1980s, the baiji was claimed to be the first dolphin species in history driven to extinction by humans. [6] A Conservation Action Plan for Cetaceans of the Yangtze River was approved by the Chinese Government in 2001. [6]
The dynasty was founded by Emperor Taizu of Song, ... From 1268 to 1273, Kublai blockaded the Yangtze River with his navy and besieged Xiangyang, ...