{"id":155802,"date":"2026-08-08T04:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155802"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:00:13","slug":"chinese-scientists-find-some-yangtze-flood-controls-may-do-more-harm-than-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155802","title":{"rendered":"Chinese scientists find some Yangtze flood controls may do more harm than good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFor centuries, the Yangtze River has been China\u2019s vital lifeblood, yet its floods have claimed countless lives. To tame its waters, flood-control systems have evolved from ancient dykes to the engineering marvel of the Three Gorges Dam.<br \/>\nBut a new study has uncovered a paradox: some human interventions may have inadvertently worsened the very flood risks they were built to mitigate.<br \/>\n\u201cWe show that flood frequency peaked during the Little Ice Age [1500\u22121850] \u2026 and that human interventions,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3363133\/chinese-scientists-find-some-yangtze-flood-controls-may-do-more-harm-good?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFor centuries, the Yangtze River has been China\u2019s vital lifeblood, yet its floods have claimed countless lives. To tame its waters, flood-control systems have&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155802"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}