Drop by drop, China’s Yangtze River is drying up


The biggest river in China is drying up.

After examining decades of records from ground stations and satellite images, government researchers estimate that the average level of the Yangtze River has fallen by about 2cm (0.8 inches) every five years since the 1980s.

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