CHIANG KHONG, Thailand – Dismissing its neighbors' pleas, impoverished Laos is rapidly building a Mekong River dam that threatens fisheries crucial to millions of Southeast Asia's poorest people. The ...

A fishermen near the Khone Phapheng Falls (Khone Falls) along the Mekong River in Laos. In my previous post, I summarized many of the superlatives of fish and fisheries from the Mekong River in ...

CHIANG KHONG, Thailand — For Pianporn Deetes, the Mekong is more than a river. “This is not just liquid, but this is the entire life-supporting system,” Deetes, a local activist, said recently on a ...

Aerial View of the Mekong in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. Credit: Luc Forsyth and Gareth Bright Subscribe for ads-free reading Luc Forsyth and Gareth Bright have set out on a journey to follow the Mekong ...

Urgent solutions needed to save one of the world’s most iconic species. The discovery of a deceased female Irrawaddy river dolphin on Cheutal Touch Island, Cambodia – close to the border with Laos – ...

CHIANG KHONG, Thailand (AP) — Dismissing its neighbors' pleas, impoverished Laos is rapidly building a Mekong River dam that threatens fisheries crucial to millions of Southeast Asia's poorest people.

A deceased Irrawaddy river dolphin was discovered near the Lao-Cambodian border, bringing the total Lao population down to just five individuals. Bangkok, Thailand, 7 April, 2015 – The discovery of a ...

CHIANG KHONG, Thailand (AP) — Dismissing its neighbors’ pleas, impoverished Laos is rapidly building a Mekong River dam that threatens fisheries crucial to millions of Southeast Asia’s poorest people.