Widespread flooding in southern China has caused 175 deaths, with 107 people missing and more storms expected, the government said today.

MAJOR rivers burst their banks in southern China, triggering massive floods that have killed 132 people and forced 860,000 to flee their homes, the government said yesterday.

Massive flooding in southern China has killed 132 people and forced 860,000 to flee their homes, and more storms are on the way, the government said today.

Unusually heavy seasonal flooding in China has killed at least 155 people and forced more than 1 million to flee as water levels in some areas reached their highest for more than a decade, the government said today.

China plans to build more than 20 dams along the country’s longest river by 2020, it announced today.

China today denied reports of deadly landslides being triggered by a massive dam project which has been repeatedly attacked as an environmental disaster.

ON Wednesday, August 8, there was a sad story on RTÉ Radio’s News at One. It was the announcement that the Yangtze River dolphin was extinct.

A Chinese freshwater dolphin has been declared extinct after desperate efforts to rescue it came too late.

Lightning strikes and mud flows sparked by record-breaking torrential rains killed at least 15 people in western China, state media reported today.

Nearly half a million people have been evacuated from a potentially deadly flood zone surrounding central China’s swollen Huai River, state media reported today.

The UK’s biggest bank HSBC today pledged to donate US$100m (€71m) as part of an initiative to tackle climate change.

THE Great Escape Expo is on today and tomorrow at the RDS in Dublin, and it’s aimed at anyone planning to take time out or move abroad for a longer spell.

Ten of the world’s great rivers are at risk of drying out, the World Wildlife Fund said today.

AN EXPEDITION searching for a rare Yangtze River dolphin ended yesterday without a single sighting and with the team’s leader saying one of the world’s oldest species was effectively extinct.

Rain-soaked residents of south-western China began digging out today after floods and landslides that killed at least 161 people, while authorities warned of further rains over parts of the disaster area.

FIVE people have died and more than 370,000 have been evacuated as huge holes were blown in dykes in east China to tackle flood waters that are at record highs, officials said yesterday.

Dozens of people are missing after the sinking of a Chinese ferry and rescuers are losing hope of finding more survivors, officials said today.

Authorities downstream on the Yangtze River braced themselves for high water racing towards them today as the city of Wuhan escaped flooding.

CHINESE authorities have evacuated 600,000 people from around the dangerously swollen Dongting Lake as it threatens to engulf millions more, state media said yesterday.

More than 700,000 people have been evacuated from areas threatened by flooding around a huge lake in central China, but more than eight million are at risk, officials said today.

More than one million people are helping shore up dikes around a giant lake in China.

AS green floodwaters rose into homes beside a huge, rain-swollen lake in central China, yesterday, 800,000 workers were racing to shore up dykes that protect six Chinese cities and dozens of villages.

China has mobilised almost a million people to shore up dykes that protect six cities and dozens of villages from a huge, rain-swollen lake.

Ten people have been killed after a boat overloaded with passengers sank in south-west China.