The economic and political importance of monitoring the weather — or at least the effects of weather — was clear to the ...

The flood waters covered the land for decades while engineers ... and it is now fairly comprehensively discounted by discoveries of rather advanced communities in ancient China that seem to have quite ...

China's rainy season is usually followed by intense heat that scorches any crops that survive waterlogged soil, depletes ...

A 5,000-year-old city in Central China was found to have ... uncovered two dams in the ancient river-moat system. These dams were likely built to reduce floods and store water for the city's ...

Rescue workers are using rubber dinghies to evacuate people and deliver food and water after floodwaters overwhelmed towns in southern China’s Guangdong province.

Flash floods and years of unusual rainfall — likely linked to climate change — are degrading ancient cave art along China's historic silk road at a rapid pace. More than 1,500 years ago ...

Ongoing severe droughts in China have exposed an ancient island that is normally submerged in a lake. China is experiencing a heatwave and drought this year unlike anything seen in decades, with ...

It was discovered about a dozen miles outside of Yunyang (formerly known as Yunxian) in central China — the same area where ... that researchers are excavating the remains of an ancient catastrophic ...