China’s Yellow River flooded 10 times more often in past millennium. New study finds out why

Flooding in China’s Yellow River became 10 times more frequent in the last 1,000 years than in several previous millennia, and it cannot be blamed on climate change, a new study has shown.

Around 80 per cent of the increased frequency was caused by human interference that transformed and destabilised the river, according to an analysis of 12,000 years’ worth of data by scientists in China and the US.