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.

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.

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, ...

February 19, 2010 • The Mekong River is known as the Cuu Long, or Nine Dragons, in Vietnam, where the waterway splits and flows into the South China Sea. In the Mekong Delta, an economic boom ...

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.

by Tamara Hinson, The Telegraph, December 11, 2018 | Here’s how to admire the the Greater Mekong area's thousands of species of wildlife on a river cruise. Just be sure to bring your camera.

As plans for damming the lower Mekong gathered force in the early 2000s, the Mekong River Commission predicted that its four members — Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam — would reap $30 ...

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 ...

The Mekong River produces fish when it flows free and clean electricity when it’s dammed. Therein lies the dilemma. A fisherman prepares to cast his nets at a section of Khone Falls, ...

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 ...