During his lifetime, Qin Shi Huang became obsessed with achieving immortality and sought the elusive elixir of life.

Questions remain over the mid-air collision between a jet, which was carrying 64 people, including the crew, and a military helicopter carrying three soldiers ...

Even as China proposes the largest dam project in the world, Europe and America are trying to reverse the damage wrought by ...

Nestled along the tranquil banks of the Yellow River, Xunhua Salar Autonomous County is known as the "hometown of basketball", with over 90% of its population belonging to ethnic minorities, including ...

The young figure skaters whose lives were cut tragically short Wednesday night when an American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River were just beginning ...

Investigators confirmed they have recovered a cockpit voice recorder and a flight-data recorder from American Eagle Flight ...

The US president says the army Black Hawk involved in Wednesday's collision was above the 200ft altitude limit for ...

Rivers began pumping weathered material into the sea about a billion years after Earth formed, suggesting continents may have gotten an early start.

China’s South-North Water Transfer Project: an ambitious bid to solve water scarcity by rerouting major rivers. But at what ...

The megaproject will also divert the flow of the Yarlung river through India and Bangladesh, potentially triggering flash ...

For all this "dam for a dam" water war, relations between the two nations along their disputed Himalayan border are not ...

The Yellow River, which stretches from the Tibetan Plateau to the Bohai Sea in China, is so called because of the color lent ...