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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An enormous and endangered fish – a 400-pound, 13-foot-long giant freshwater stingray – was hooked by fishermen from a small island community in the middle of the Mekong River on May 5, 2022. The ...

Five years after the Xayaburi dam in northern Laos began operations, the cost of Mekong hydropower is becoming ever more clear. A photo of the Mekong River at Luang Prabang, Laos, prior to the ...

I first began covering the Mekong River in Southeast Asia almost two decades ago, encountering fish so immense they seemed almost mythical: giant freshwater stingrays weighing as much as a grand piano ...

What has long been one of the great wildlife mysteries – the identity of the world’s largest freshwater fish – appears to have been solved last week as fishers in northern Cambodia, working with an ...

FISH WRITHE frantically in the shallow pool, as their schoolmates stranded on the exposed sandbar breathe their last. It is November, the end of the monsoon season, yet the water in the Mekong river ...

It's 9 a.m. and the Mekong River at this hour is still peaceful: just a few fishermen casting nets into a large pool below the area called Si Phan Don, or "4,000 islands." It's a popular tourist ...

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 ...

Houayxay, Laos – Fishing went well today for Khon, a Laotian fisherman, who lives in a floating house built from plastic drums, scrap metal and wood on the Mekong River. “I caught two catfish,” the 52 ...

Oceanography, Vol. 30, No. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE ON Sedimentary Processes Building a Tropical Delta Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: The Mekong System (SEPTEMBER 2017), pp. 22-33 (12 pages) ABSTRACT.