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A fishermen near the Khone Phapheng Falls (Khone Falls) along the Mekong River in Laos. In my previous post, I summarized many of the superlatives of fish and fisheries from the Mekong River in ...

Hydropower projects, including a spree of mega-dams in China, have had a significant impact on the midstream reaches of the Mekong River, exacerbating drought conditions and altering the river’s flow ...

Southeast Asia’s Mekong River, known as the most productive river system on the planet, sustains the livelihoods of tens of millions of people through fishing and farming. For years, the world’s ...

Upstream dams on Mekong hold back sediment, alter flow Dams affect millions who use river for farming, fishing Concerns rise as China builds more dams for hydropower CHIANG KHONG, Thailand, March 21 ...

Both within and between nations, Southeast Asia’s largest river gives rise to competing, and in some cases conflicting, notions. In this Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, photo, fishing boats are moored in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cambodia is one of the poorest countries in Asia. But it hasn't always been that way, and the Mekong River has been key to its periods of... Cambodia's Fortunes Ebb And Flow Along The Mekong Cambodia ...