The drought, caused by El Niño weather patterns, is hitting the entire region from Thailand to Cambodia to Vietnam’s central highlands. The impact is most acute here in the Mekong Delta, where ...

Such dreams have a way of dissipating in southern Vietnam's Mekong, one of the most climate-vulnerable regions in the world. For the poor, the future is especially uncertain.

Vietnam's government has plans to boost the agricultural economy in the Mekong region. Dao Bao Tran and her brother Do Hoang Trung, 11-year-old twins growing up on a rickety houseboat in the ...

Since 2016, Vietnam's government has spent over $470 million on 190 projects to prevent erosion in the Mekong Delta, according to state media. But "many of these expensive structures have ...

High temperatures cause difficult working conditions for gig workers, farmers, exacerbate saltwater intrusion into fresh water sources in Mekong Delta provinces PUBLISHED: 4/5 8:12 a.m.

The nine acres in southern Vietnam that double as rice paddy and shrimp pond for farmer Nguyen Thi Tam have become a wasteland. After the worst drought in 90 years, almost nothing grows.

BANGKOK — Nearly the entire Mekong Delta in Vietnam — an area that helps feed about 200 million people — will sink underwater by the year 2100 at current rates, a new study predicts.