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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chinese tourists account for more visitors to Thailand — and much of Southeast Asia — than from any other country. The Thai village of Sob Ruak, at the heart of the Golden Triangle region where ...

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 ...

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.

Eyes on Earth studied data from a 28-year period to determine the extent that dams in China on the Upper Mekong River impact natural water flow. While these dams have disrupted the river’s natural ...

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 ...

ON THE NAM OU RIVER, Laos — The former chief of Pak Chim, a tiny village on a tributary of the Mekong River, remembers clearly the moment he knew his hamlet would be no more. It was a decade ago. A ...

The murky depths of the mighty river seems to function as refuges for some of the biggest freshwater fish on Earth, explorers are finding. This giant freshwater stingray weighing close to 400 pounds ...