It's not really a valley at all, more a vast expanse of plains and mountains stretching for 2,000km from the river's source high on the edge of the Tibetan plateau, to its mouth on the Yellow Sea.

Gobi desert marches on as a Yellow Dragon By Arturo Gallardo , Forrest M. Mims III - Special to the Express-News April 5, 2010 Asia’s Gobi desert, one of the world’s largest, is on the move.

The Yellow River — China’s legendary cradle of civilization — is drying up. One day in 1972, as irrigation and industries in the north siphoned off more of its waters, the river failed to ...

Besides, the Yellow River Basin, from its plateau glacier, meadow steppe, to the Gobi desert and the delta region, is also fragile in ecology. It means that degeneration is easy to happen, but the ...

An obvious line emerges at the confluence of Yellow River and Bohai Sea. Photos were taken by a staff member of the border defense forces' unit in Dongying. [Photo/chinadaily.com.cn] When the ...

Serious Erosion in Yellow River Basin Jan 17, 2011 According to a recent report by the Yellow River Conservancy Commission, 62% of the river’s basin is severely affected by water and soil erosion.

Red-crowned cranes forage at the Yellow River estuary where the Yellow River, China's second-longest river, joins the Bohai Sea in Dongying, east China's Shandong Province, Oct. 17, 2022. (Photo ...

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 ...

from the Yellow Sea in the crowded east, near Beijing, to the remote Gobi Desert in the west. This epic adventure explores 20 location highlights of the Unesco World Heritage Site, built by the ...

A short drive from Sanmenxia, a charming city on the banks of the Hwang He, or Yellow River, lies Hangu Pass ... with the forbidding Taklamakan desert, in Xinjiang. On the way, the NSR encountered ...

Serious Erosion in Yellow River Basin Jan 17, 2011 According to a recent report by the Yellow River Conservancy Commission, 62% of the river’s basin is severely affected by water and soil erosion.