VIENTIANE: Hidden within the streams and tributaries of the Mekong River Basin, five unique species of Schistura fish have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Infographic map showing the river system on the border region of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand. Thai fisherman Somdet Singthong ...

Hydropower is commonly considered as a clean energy source to fuel Southeast Asian economic growth. A recent study published in Environmental Research Letters finds that hydropower in the Mekong River ...

The worst drought in decades in Southeast Asia has weakened one of its great rivers to the point where it is losing a battle with the sea. Water flows in the lower Mekong River in Vietnam are so ...

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 ...

Flood Pulse Originating in the Tibetan highlands, the Mekong River flows through six Asian countries, including China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, before emptying into the South ...

The Mekong River Commission (MRC) and its dialogue partners will undertake a major joint study by all six Mekong countries into the changing hydrological conditions across the entire Mekong River ...

Using 30 years of satellite data, researchers discovered that within one year of the opening of a major dam in the Mekong River basin, downstream river temperatures during the dry season dropped by up ...

On October 29, Laos unveiled a new dam in the country’s north. The 1.3-gigawatt Xayaburi dam sits on the Mekong River, which flows the length of the country. Laos plans to build nearly a hundred like ...

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 ...