Thai fisherman Somdet Singthong steered his metal skiff across the brown waters of the Mekong River, resigned to the pollution that has put his health and lifelong source of livelihood at risk.

The pulse of Southeast Asia beats through the mighty Mekong River. For thousands of years, this massive waterway has nourished civilizations, shaped cultures, and sustained livelihoods from the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Warmer and drier wet seasons in the upper basin of the Mekong River are affecting the availability of water for hydropower generation along the ...

Heavy rains and a bumper fish crop have improved life along the Mekong River after a nearly four-year drought, poor harvests and the pandemic took a heavy toll on some 65 million people who rely on ...

The Greater Mekong Programme has launched a new five year project (July 2012- June 2017) as part of the HSBC Water Partnership, contributing to safeguarding ‘healthy rivers’ and ‘healthy communities’ ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A dam being built in Laos near the border with Cambodia imperils downstream communities and the Mekong ecosystem as a whole, experts and affected ...

A new study conducted by IIASA researchers and their colleagues highlights that cooperation in infrastructure operation between countries surrounding the Lancang-Mekong River Basin could bring major ...

In recent years, the fate of Southeast Asia’s great river – the Mekong – has attracted growing international scrutiny. The Mekong faces many challenges, from the impacts of climate change and saline ...

The Mekong River Basin spans six countries in Southeast Asia, draining high-elevation headwaters in the Tibetan Plateau and flowing through varied climatic zones before discharging into the Mekong ...

Humanity has entered the Anthropocene, an era in which human activity shapes Earth’s climate, ecosystems, rivers, and natural processes at planetary scale. Yet many institutions guiding development ...

The five Asian mega-deltas (the Yangtze, the Pearl, the Chao Phraya, the Mekong and the Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna deltas) are home to approximately 80% of the global deltaic population and the region ...