Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: China's so-called "sponge cities" were designed to boost flood resilience in metropolitan areas. But their effectiveness is ...

(Reuters) - China has been hit by devastating floods in recent weeks, inundating cities and causing deaths and infrastructural damage, as well as raising questions about the effectiveness of its 2015 ...

This natural pond helps reserve precipitation in the ecological corridor of Qian'an, a city in China's Hebei province. Like many other Chinese cities, Qian'an used to fall victim to urban flooding ...

China’s Yu Konjian, one of the world’s most distinguished landscape architects, died in a plane crash in the vast wetlands of Brazil, authorities said on Wednesday. Yu, 62, gained global relevance for ...

The pioneering architect’s death casts new light on his radical vision for greener, flood-resilient cities – ideas he shared with The Urbanist in a 2024 interview. Chinese architect and urbanist ...

The direct impact that Harvard Graduate School of Design–educated Yu—affectionally dubbed “the Olmsted of China”—has had on landscape architecture, urban planning, and climate resiliency in his native ...

JINHUA, China — In the shade of a willow tree, Li Tao and his buddy dabble lines in a slow-moving river channel and occasionally pull out a tiny fish. "It's good to have a place like this for people ...