Called "China's sorrow," or Huang Ho in Chinese, the Huang (Yellow) River is the second-largest river in China, flowing 5,954 kilometers from its origins in the Bayan Harshan Mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in western China...

The Yellow River or Huang He (Chinese: 黃河; pinyin: Huáng Hé; sometimes simply called The River in ancient Chinese) is the second-longest river in China (after the Yangtze River) and the sixth-longest in the world at 5,464 kilometres (3,398 mi).[1]...

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] More than four millennia ago, the Chinese emperor Yu the Great said: 'Conquering the Yellow River equates to controlling the whole of China'. Today, as the country develops at breakneck speed, the river remains as important as ever--millions of people...

Human encroachment, pollution, overfishing and dam-building have killed one third of fish species in the Yellow River, China's second- longest waterway. Its increasingly desperate plight is also threatening economic growth. The mighty Yellow River once made its away along 3,395 miles through nine...

Dan Kaercher says his favorite park is Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota. But he didn't play favorites in compiling "Parklands of the Midwest: Celebrating the Natural Wonders of America's Heartland" (Globe Pequot Press, $19.95), a new book that profiles more than 130 parks...