Heavy rains and China’s decision to release more water from upstream dams have offered a glimmer of good news for fishing and farming families who have suffered from poor catches and harvests amid a ...

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 ...

Recent sightings of the “Mekong ghost” fish in Cambodia offer hope for a creature once presumed extinct. The giant salmon carp, so named because it resembles a large salmon, had not been documented by ...

Provincial project coordinator helps Lao villages manage their fisheries sustainably under WWF's Siphandone Project in partnership with the HSBC Water Programme. When faced with threats to their ...

Southeast Asia's famed Mekong River is under threat. Chinese dams upriver and climate change are partly to blame, but dams downriver are also having an effect. And some countries are starting to ...

A cascade of hydroelectric dams on the Mekong has caused water levels in the river on which millions depend for sustenance to plunge to catastrophically low levels, according to experts and news ...

May 12 (Reuters) - A team of marine biologists have welcomed the discovery of an endangered giant freshwater stingray during a recent expedition to a remote stretch of the Mekong River in Cambodia, ...

Over the past three months, four dolphin carcasses were discovered in the Mekong Flooded Forest (MFF), three adults and one calf. Over the past three months, four dolphin carcasses were discovered in ...

In recent weeks, the Mekong River, one of the world’s longest and largest rivers, which has been under peril due to a confluence of development, demographic, and geopolitical pressures, has been at ...

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 ...