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 ...

Alarming' microplastic pollution in Europe's great rivers "Alarming" levels of microplastic have been found in major rivers across Europe according to scientists in 14 studies published simultaneously ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

VIENTIANE (Laotian Times): The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has entered into a grant agreement with the Mekong River Commission (MRC), pledging up to US$5 million for ...