Yellow River
Yellow River China: see Huang He .
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Folk fabric: Chinese villages where unsung artists dwell. (Culture).(folk arts in China)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: New Internationalist; 4/1/2002; ; 447 words
; ...from farming families living along the Yellow River contributed their talents to the quilt...students set off from the origin of the Yellow River at Qinghai in north-west China, and...pieces came from an ancient ritual in the Yellow River Valley, in which local families praying...
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China's unquenchable thirst: China's staggering growth over the last 20 years has strained much of its resource base, but nothing more than freshwater supplies.
Magazine article from: World Watch; 11/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...at least for me), the crossing of the Yellow River. And it was that sight--of China's second...zero flow in the lower reaches of the Yellow River in 1972, and between then and 1999...downstream ecological effects have led the Yellow River Conservancy Commission to restore some...
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China's killer floods.(Special Report)
Magazine article from: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication; 4/17/1995; 211 words
; ...record in this respect, but the Yellow River (Huang Ho) is even worse. In 1887, torrents of rain fell along the Yellow River's course. The rampaging river...this disaster. In 1931, another Yellow River flood took an estimated 4 million...
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The green leap forward: environmentalism is China's fastest-growing citizen movement. Beijing isn't cracking down on these new activists--it's empowering them.
Magazine article from: Washington Monthly; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...point where the Silk Road crosses the Yellow River. Historically a remote trading outpost...cigarettes a day. Ten percent of the Yellow River near Lanzhou is now sewage, and last...forty-five tons of heavy oil into the Yellow River, followed last winter by a discharge...
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Daughter of the Yellow River.
Magazine article from: California Bookwatch; 9/1/2006; 131 words
; Daughter of the Yellow River Diana Lu Image Global Impact One Market Street #3600, San Francisco...the US to launch her own international business: DAUGHTER OF THE YELLOW RIVER: AN INSPIRATIONAL JOURNEY FROM DEPRIVED CHILD DURING CHINA'S CULTURAL...
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Shallow river (China's Yellow River is drying out).
Magazine article from: New Internationalist; 4/1/2001; 60 words
; China's Yellow River may soon dry up. Water levels are only a third of what they were 50 years ago. Drought, deforestation and mismanagement are responsible...
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Reviving China's ruined rivers. (Water Pollution).
Magazine article from: Environmental Health Perspectives; 9/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...homes and agriculture, increased. The Yellow River, long regarded as the cradle of Chinese...half of the monitored sections of the Yellow River was classified as unsuitable for human...service Three Gorges Probe, notes that the Yellow River carp, once an important staple for the...
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Caustic soda recovery project in ningxia starting operation. (PROJECT NEWS).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: China Chemical Reporter; 11/16/2001; 154 words
; ...of paper-making black liquid into the Yellow River can be cut down by 5.9 million tons...pollution load in the Ningxia section of the yellow River can be reduced by 17%. According to...tons of industrial wastewater into the Yellow River and the sewage discharge from Ningxia...
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Where have all the rivers gone?(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: World Watch; 5/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...the Ganges, the Amu Dar'ya and Syr Dar'ya, the Huang He (or Yellow River), and the Colorado are each now so dammed, diverted, or overtapped...building of dikes and irrigation canals to control the mighty Yellow River. But it was not until this century that engineering schemes...
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Is China's "rise" all it seems?(Asia)(Country overview)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 11/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...use is massively wasteful and inefficient--that even the Yellow River, the very cradle of Chinese civilisation, sometimes now fails...sewage flows raw into rivers and streams; 10 per cent of the Yellow River is officially classified as sewage; and half the population...
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Yellow River
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names
Yellow River ( Huáng Hé ), China So‐called because of the high degree of yellowish silt it carries.
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yellow
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...a child in a yellow dress (‘The Yellow Kid’...attract purchasers. Yellow River the second-largest river in China, which...gulf of Bo Hai. yellow star a piece of yellow cloth bearing...the Yellowstone River, a tributary...
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Yellow Sea
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names
Yellow Sea ( Huáng Hăi ), China So‐called because of the colour of its water, received from the Yellow River and others that discharge into it.
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Rivers
Book article from: World of Earth Science
...greatest rivers: the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers in China, the Tigris...distribution of the earth's river systems has influenced human...ultimate base level for most river systems, and a sea-level change...deposits; the stratigraphy of a river basin thus shows the depositional...
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Huang He
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Hwang Ho , or Yellow River, great river of...an arm of the Yellow Sea. Course The...largest city on the river, generate electricity...both sides of the river). Cutting deep into the loess, the river receives most of the yellow silt from which...
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