The mighty Mekong River, which has sustained civilizations for thousands of years, now faces an unprecedented crisis that threatens to upend the lives of millions across Southeast Asia. More than 60 ...
Amid competition between China and the U.S., the question of the river’s fate has been imbued with a strategic undercurrent. In recent years, the fate of Southeast Asia’s great river – the Mekong – ...
Flagship report by WWF and 25 local, regional and global partners celebrates the diversity of fishes in the Mekong and their importance to people, nature and the health of the river. The Mekong ...
CHIANG KHONG, Thailand — For Pianporn Deetes, the Mekong is more than a river. “This is not just liquid, but this is the entire life-supporting system,” Deetes, a local activist, said recently on a ...
I first began covering the Mekong River in Southeast Asia almost two decades ago, encountering fish so immense they seemed almost mythical: giant freshwater stingrays weighing as much as a grand piano ...
Slip into the slow pace of life in Laos, where a new Mekong cruise follows the river’s course past the pagoda-studded world heritage city of Luang Prabang, into a less-explored stretch of the waterway ...
The first-ever acoustic telemetry network in the Mekong River has tracked key migration corridors critical to the survival of fish in Cambodia and Laos. To conduct the study, researchers caught fish ...
A dam being built in Laos near the border with Cambodia imperils downstream communities and the Mekong ecosystem as a whole, experts and affected community members say. The Sekong A dam will close off ...
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