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Explore the impact of the Mekong dam on livelihoods and ecosystems in the lower Mekong Basin. Understand the consequences today.
Mekong River communities rely on it for food — new dams threaten resources Dams and climate change are among the threats facing Southeast Asia's famed Mekong River.
Unsustainable development threatens the health and diverse fish populations of the Mekong river, with one-fifth of fish species in Southeast Asia's main artery facing extinction, ...
Mekong River at its lowest in 100 years, threatening food supply. A combination of drought and controversial upstream water politics is setting up Southeast Asia for potential disaster.
Boramy’s short-range tendencies stand in sharp contrast to other large species in the river, like the Mekong giant catfish, which can migrate 600 miles or more to spawn and feed.
There are many ways to kill a river. With Southeast Asia's storied Mekong, China's upriver damming is taking a heavy toll, but downstream neighbors share the blame. The No. 1 threat: sand mining.
Cambodian villagers on the Mekong River have caught what researchers say is the world's biggest freshwater fish ever recorded, a stingray that weighed in at 300kg (661 lb) and took around a dozen ...
HONOLULU (KHON2) — The Mekong River has provided a unique way of living for the 700 million people along its banks but that is all changing. For millenia, the Mekong has provided food, commerce ...