Copied. Here, we show how paleoenvironmental records can provide important multidecadal perspectives on ecosystem services (ES). The Yangtze River is the third longest river in the world after the Nile River in Africa and the Amazon River in South America. The Yangtze River estuary is an important ecoregion. The Yangtze River has the third greatest water flow and is one of the most human-influenced rivers in the world. The Yangtze River is the longest river in Asia, flowing 3,915 miles from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in China to the East China Sea. It was an incredible trip and I learned a lot about the people, the country, and the river. The annual inputs of heavy metals (As, Cd, Cr, Hg, Cu, Pb and Zn) to agricultural soils in the Yangtze River delta, China in 2007–2009 have been studied. Abstract. I traveled along the Yangtze River for 10 days from Chongqing to Shanghai. Abstract. In China, and elsewhere, long-term economic development and poverty alleviation need to be balanced against the likelihood of ecological failure. Increasing river thermal shifts not only threaten the Chinese sturgeon but also affect the entire Yangtze aquatic ecosystem. But sand is an essential part of the ecosystem on which the finless porpoise depends—and its removal upends that ecosystem entirely. Since 1950, this river system has experienced drastic human interventions, leading to various environmental changes, including water temperature. The Yangtze River traverses the three great steps of the Chinese geomorphological “staircase.” The climate, geography, and geomorphology in the upper, middle, and lower reaches are very diverse, resulting in rich biodiversity, a large number of rare and endemic species, and a close relationship between the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. The results showed that from 2000 to 2010, the value of the mean wetland ecosystem health index in the Yangtze River Basin decreased from 0.482 to 0.481, while it increased from 0.582 to 0.593 in the Amazon River Basin. Ecology Students Monitor the Health of the Yangtze River in Shanghai The Yangtze River is one of the longest rivers in the world, running nearly 4,000 miles across mainland China, and serves as the primary food and transportation source for millions of Chinese people. These studies involve the four new dams being built by CTGPC in the lower Jinsha Jiang, the mainstem tributary of the Yangtze, up-river from the current Three Gorges Dam and Reservoir. Today, the Yangtze region is home to more than 400 million people, or nearly one-third of China’s population. Riverside town restores ecosystem along the Yangtze River. Controlling Yangtze River Floods: A New Approach By Dr. Jamie Pittock and Dr. Ming Xu After nearly a millennium of efforts to control floods in the Yangtze River basin with dikes, polders and other hard engineering measures, the Chinese government adopted a radically different approach after the disastrous 1998 floods.