Despite pollution and heavy fishing pressure ... delta fields and feeds fish throughout the Mekong system—which extends beyond the river itself. The boats that fish its enormously productive ...

Climate change and construction activity have resulted in high pollution in China's rivers like the Mekong (above). An ...

The Mekong river system suffers from pollution and increasing construction, including the development of hydropower plants. "Monstrous hydropower plants cause crop failures for the rural ...

About 60 million people depend on the Mekong River ... are endangered or critically endangered. Threats to river dolphins include pollution, dams, shipping, and bycatch. Plus, warming global ...

Mekong's Forgotten Fishes, a new report published by WWF and Global Water Center, in tandem with 24 other local, regional and global Mekong-based organizations, details the extraordinary variety of ...

River water should instead be full of silt. The Mekong, South-east Asia’s main ... it also faces threats that range from pollution to wetland destruction and overfishing. Of these, it is the ...

These fish are threatened with habitat fragmentation, industrial pollution, and overfishing. Many millions of people depend on the Mekong River for sustenance, and river catfish have long been ...

VIENTIANE/BERLIN (dpa): Researchers working in the Mekong region in South-East Asia ... to 3,623 the species discovered along the huge river since 1997. Among the strangest discoveries last ...

This is because pollution, dams, shipping and bycatch have taken their ... This is especially critical in the case of the Irrawaddy dolphin subpopulation in the Mekong River. The initiative will ...

Stuart argues that the “natural capital” provided by the Mekong river needs to be considered alongside the economic returns of hydropower and a paradigm shift must be made in a way that provides a win ...