BANGKOK (Reuters) - China's Mekong River dams held back large amounts of water during a damaging drought in downstream countries last year despite China having higher-than-average water levels ...

Upstream dams on Mekong hold back sediment, alter flow Dams affect millions who use river for farming, fishing Concerns rise as China builds more dams for hydropower CHIANG KHONG, Thailand, March 21 ...

The World Widlife Fund (WWF) has called for an emergency meeting with the Mekong River Commission (MRC) after Laos announced that it will go ahead with its second hydroelectric project along the river ...

The floodplains in the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB) are among the few remaining global examples of a relatively intact and functioning floodplain in a large river basin. It is widely accepted that this ...

WWF strongly supports the recommendation of the Mekong River Commission’s Strategic Environmental Assessment for a ten-year deferral on the construction of any of the 11 hydropower dams proposed for ...

Journalists interested in learning how the decline in press freedom affects environmental reporting in the Lower Mekong region can join this webinar. Internews' Earth Journalism Network (EJN) is ...

A new report from WWF highlights how vital regional supply chains that rely on a healthy and connected Mekong River are undermined by hydropower development. Recent decades have seen scores of ...

Activists, journalists, environmental lawyers and others who raise attention for environmental issues in the Mekong region say they feel threatened by authoritarian governments. Environment defenders ...

Southeast Asia’s Mekong River, known as the most productive river system on the planet, sustains the livelihoods of tens of millions of people through fishing and farming. For years, the world’s ...

Fish biologist Zeb Hogan and a research team with a Mekong giant stingray. In his book, "Chasing Giants," Hogan describes the importance to people of fish—from charismatic giants to abundant fisheries ...