Heavy rains and China’s decision to release more water from upstream dams have offered a glimmer of good news for fishing and farming families who have suffered from poor catches and harvests amid a ...

A fishermen near the Khone Phapheng Falls (Khone Falls) along the Mekong River in Laos. In my previous post, I summarized many of the superlatives of fish and fisheries from the Mekong River in ...

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 ...

Provincial project coordinator helps Lao villages manage their fisheries sustainably under WWF's Siphandone Project in partnership with the HSBC Water Programme. When faced with threats to their ...

In the Mekong River, you’ll find fish bigger than cars. They’re not the only ones who depend on this vital waterway In the Mekong River, you’ll find fish bigger than cars. They’re not the only ones ...

Last year, a fisher caught the world’s largest freshwater fish, a Mekong giant stingray, in the Mekong River in Cambodia. After tracking the fish for a year, researchers are publishing research about ...

CHIANG KHONG, Thailand (AP) — Dismissing its neighbors' pleas, impoverished Laos is rapidly building a Mekong River dam that threatens fisheries crucial to millions of Southeast Asia's poorest people.

In recent weeks, the Mekong River, one of the world’s longest and largest rivers, which has been under peril due to a confluence of development, demographic, and geopolitical pressures, has been at ...

Recent sightings of the “Mekong ghost” fish in Cambodia offer hope for a creature once presumed extinct. The giant salmon carp, so named because it resembles a large salmon, had not been documented by ...

May 12 (Reuters) - A team of marine biologists have welcomed the discovery of an endangered giant freshwater stingray during a recent expedition to a remote stretch of the Mekong River in Cambodia, ...

In the Mekong River in Cambodia, fishers and researchers found a 13-foot-long, 661-pound stingray — a win for conservation efforts in the area. By Jason Bittel For 17 years, Zeb Hogan, a biologist, ...