When finished next year, it will be the eighth dam on the Lancang River—China's name for its 1,300-mile stretch of the Mekong. In recent years Boontom and many others here have sold their ...

A U.S.-funded study by Eyes on Earth found a reduction in expected natural flow of the Mekong River since 2012, when one of the largest Chinese dams went on line. China rejected the study and last ...

Voracious glassy larvae swim in plastic tanks ... process of periodic flooding and droughts in the river system helped make ...

The nickname arises from its tendency to swim close to the surface ... Many millions of people depend on the Mekong River for sustenance, and river catfish have long been targeted for their ...

BANGKOK (The Nation/Asia News Network): Actor Tono Phakhin wants to do good for society by swimming across the Mekong River, following in the footsteps of Toon Bodyslam who once embarked on a much ...

Desert sand is too smooth to bind to make concrete, so sand is taken from river beds such as the Mekong A crisis is engulfing the Mekong River, its banks are collapsing and half a million people ...

A huge fish in the Mekong River thought to be extinct has been spotted three times in recent years. "The giant salmon carp is like a symbol of the Mekong region," said Chheana Chhut, a researcher ...

Now, it’s been found. Parker Hilton via Unsplash In the early 1990s, scientists fished the Mekong River on the hunt for a massive fish. The species was known by local fishers, but it wasn’t ...

The Mekong River in Thailand’s northern Chiang Khong ... February 2024 – enough water to fill 10.5 million Olympic-size swimming pools. Forty-six per cent of that water was stored within ...