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Damming China's River Wild
Yu Guifu's farmland is still above water, and for that he can thank China's environmental movement. For years power companies have longed to dam the Nu River, which flows flat and olive drab below the fields where Yu and his family earn $1,200 a year growing corn, rice and strawberries. So far they haven't succeeded. "That river hasn't changed in my lifetime," says Yu, 50, as he rolls a cigarette and squishes his bare feet in a soft embankment. "But I don't know what will happen next."
Nations:China People:Hu Jintao Activities:China Three Gorge Dam Project Source:(Time)
2008-06-11
China quake death toll rises to nearly 10,000
A powerful earthquake toppled buildings, schools and chemical plants Monday in central China, killing nearly 10,000 people and trapping untold numbers in mounds of concrete, steel and earth in the country's worst quake in three decades.
Nations:China People:Wen Jiabao Hu Jintao Activities:2008 China Earthquake China Three Gorge Dam Project
2008-05-12
Parts of China's Yangtze at lowest level in 140 years
A severe drought has left parts of China's famed Yangtze river suffering their lowest water levels in at least 140 years, state media reported Thursday.
Activities:China Three Gorge Dam Project
2008-01-17
China's massive dam project causes worry
Wang Zhushu rarely sleeps at night. Instead, the 61-year-old retiree paces, listening to the drone of passing ships that shake the walls of her house on the banks of the Yangtze River.
People:Hu Jintao Activities:China Three Gorge Dam Project
2007-12-30
China: Three Gorges impact not that bad
Chinese officials on Thursday refuted reports that the massive Three Gorges Dam trigged deadly landslides, part of an apparent attempt to play down the environmental impact of the giant water management project.
Nations:China Activities:China Three Gorge Dam Project
2007-11-22
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