The Mekong River is the lifeblood of countries in the Mekong region, but the past few years have seen water flows recurringly decline and processes of saltwater intrusion accelerating in the ...

Milan, 6 May 2022 - The Mekong Delta in Vietnam could be almost completely submerged by sea water by the end of the century if urgent action is not taken. In a paper published in the journal Science, ...

Southeast Asia’s most productive agricultural region and home to 17 million people could be mostly underwater within a lifetime. Saving the Mekong River Delta requires urgent, concerted action among ...

Zeb Hogan and colleagues from the Cambodian Fisheries Administration tagging, and then releasing, a Mekong giant catfish. In his book, "Chasing Giants," Hogan describes the importance to people of ...

The release of recent research from the Netherlands adds an additional insight into what is happening in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, the country’s all-important food producing region that contributes some ...

Deep in Vietnam's Mekong Delta lies one of Asia's most fascinating live food markets, where every aisle offers a new surprise. Local vendors sell everything from fresh seafood to live animals, ...

One summer morning, Le Thi Hong Mai's home collapsed into a river in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, where shoreline erosion caused by sand mining and hydropower dams threatens hundreds of thousands of people ...

Southeast Asia's most productive agricultural region and home to 17 million people could be mostly underwater within a lifetime. Saving the Mekong River Delta requires urgent, concerted action among ...

The beneficial annual floods Vietnam’s Mekong Delta gets has been steadily dwindling for the last 14 years. The sediment flows have now dropped by 70% compared to ...

Nearly the entire Mekong Delta in Vietnam — an area that helps feed about 200 million people — will sink underwater by the year 2100 at current rates, a new study predicts. The delta, which is home to ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. It’s a sad fact that several decades of talk about climate change have hardly anywhere yet led to serious efforts to adapt to phenomena that are ...

CAN THO, Vietnam (AP) — Dao Bao Tran and her brother Do Hoang Trung, 11-year-old twins growing up on a rickety houseboat in the Mekong Delta, have dreams. Tran loves K-pop, watches videos at night to ...