Small objects, some sentimental, some practical, are all that most survivors from Yingxiu have left of their lives after the May 12 earthquake. ...more

June 8, 2008

Chinese authorities prepared Saturday to drain a swelling lake formed by a devastating earthquake, completing work on a drainage channel to divert water that threatens hundreds of thousands of people downstream. ...more

June 1, 2008

About 80,000 people were evacuated Tuesday from downstream of an unstable earthquake-created dam that is threatening to collapse, and troops rushed to carve a trench to drain the water before it floods the valley. ...more

May 28, 2008

The Chinese government warned Monday that as many as 1.2 million residents might have to flee because they could be inundated by a swelling "barrier lake" formed when a river was blocked by landslides from the May 12 earthquake. ...more

May 27, 2008

The children's faces stare in somber black-and-white photos from newspapers and scribbled posters at relief camps, seeking their parents. Many will never find them. ...more

May 23, 2008