Endemic to China's Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless porpoise is known for its intelligence and charismatic appearance; it ...

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information ...

The Yangtze River Delta has emerged as a leader in China's economic landscape, with 35 of its 41 cities surpassing the ...

To help China address these challenges, the World Bank approved a $150 million loan in 2019 for the Forest Ecosystem Improvement in the Upper Reaches of Yangtze River Basin Program. Implemented in ...

Learn more about the Yangtze finless porpoise and how researchers used ancient poems to map out it's habitat decline.

Published today in Current Biology, a new study shows that the Yangtze finless porpoise has lost over 65% of its historic ...

Researchers looked at poetry dating as far back as the Tang dynasty to find that the Yangtze finless porpoise’s range has ...

In the study, the team systematically dug through preserved poems dating back to the year 618 CE and found hundreds of ...

The Lingjiatan site in Hanshan county, Ma'anshan, Anhui, is a late Neolithic settlement in the lower reaches of the Yangtze ...

Endemic to China's Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless porpoise is known for its intelligence and charismatic appearance; it looks like it has a perpetual smile on its face. To track how this ...

The porpoises likely disappeared from the Yangtze's lakes and tributaries as a direct result of dam constructions in the 1950s that blocked off movement to and from the river's mainstem. Two other ...