But the project comes shrouded in uncertainty, including its main purpose -- whether for shipping or irrigation -- who will fund it, and how it will affect the flow of the Mekong -- one of the ...

Project planned for an ecologically fragile area in Tibet near contested border with India, raising environmental, security ...

The upstream dams would convert more than half the lower Mekong into reservoirs, completely altering its flow. They’d trap much of the nutrient-rich sediment that now fertilizes delta fields and ...

President Hun Sen claimed on social media platform X that this means there would be “no impact on the flow of the Mekong River.” But blueprints show the canal will connect to the Mekong’s ...

found that an acute drought in the lower Mekong countries in 2019 was worsened by restricted water flow from China’s dams. Hydraulic engineering professor Tian Fuqiang of Tsinghua University ...

Despite Poonyawee’s cleanup efforts, waste continues to flow down the Ruak, reaching the Mekong River less than a kilometer away from the elephants in the Golden Triangle region encompassing ...

The Mekong giant catfish is the official freshwater heavyweight champion of the world. According to the Guinness Book of Records, a nine-foot-long individual caught in northern Thailand in 2005 ...