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The Mekong River in Thailand’s northern Chiang Khong ... The factors at play include climate change, reservoir construction, agricultural irrigation and land-use change, he says.
In Ban Khok Yai, along the Mekong River, three generations share dinner ... where houses are on stilts to weather the lake's seasonal fluctuations. Some officials argue that aquaculture and ...
The river also runs through China, Myanmar, Cambodia and Vietnam and the areas that rely on it for irrigation grow enough rice to feed 300 million people, according to the Mekong River Commission ...
A U.N. climate change report in 2022 warned there ... And with rising seas gnawing away at its southern edge and dams hemming the Mekong River upstream, farming in the fertile delta is getting ...
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 ...
Despite its gargantuan size, but also because of it, the giant catfish lives a tenuous existence in the murky waters of its native river, Southeast Asia’s Mekong, where its numbers have ...
The China-backed Techo Funan Canal, which will connect the Mekong River to the country’s coast, has given rise to environmental and security concerns. The proposed Funan Techo Canal is set to ...
The Mekong Delta of Vietnam stands to be most in danger in the time of accelerating and intersecting impacts from climate change and ... U.S., the question of the river's fate has been imbued ...
As the Mekong River faces mounting challenges from climate change, population growth, and infrastructure development, this partnership aims to safeguard the river’s health and resource ...