Nearly one dozen dams are planned for the Mekong River. The Mekong River begins at the Tibetan Plateau in China and stretches through Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia, before ending at ...

The Mekong was once a river teeming with fish, providing food security for millions of poor farmers as well urban centers. These days, that river of abundance has disappeared, replaced by forlorn ...

One of the world's most diverse rivers is under threat. Thousands of different species live in the Mekong River, which flows for almost 5,000 kilometers through much of southeast Asia. Some of the ...

The mighty Mekong River, which has sustained civilizations for thousands of years, now faces an unprecedented crisis that threatens to upend the lives of millions across Southeast Asia. More than 60 ...

When I first started studying the Mekong River’s water levels more than a decade ago, the river still ran relatively high, even in dry season–-high enough at least for sizable fish catches in Laos and ...

Amid competition between China and the U.S., the question of the river’s fate has been imbued with a strategic undercurrent. In recent years, the fate of Southeast Asia’s great river – the Mekong – ...

SOC TRANG, Vietnam (Reuters) -Standing on the bank of the Mekong River, Tran Van Cung can see his rice farm wash away before his very eyes. The paddy's edge is crumbling into the delta. Just 15 years ...

The Mekong is more than a river—it is a rhythm, a pulse that dictates the planting of rice, the migration of fish, and the stories told from one generation to the next. Its waters shimmer with the ...

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 has ...

A study released recently found that China is holding back large amounts of water upstream on the Mekong River, contributing to drought in the Southeast Asian countries downstream last year, according ...