The mighty Mekong River, which has sustained civilizations for thousands of years, now faces an unprecedented crisis that threatens to upend the lives of millions across Southeast Asia. More than 60 ...

This story was originally published by New Security Beat on July 22, 2025. The Mekong River’s seasonal floods nurture the world’s most productive inland fishery and irrigate rice paddies that feed ...

A new study has found that the Mekong River’s largest freshwater fish are shrinking in size, with critically endangered species like the giant catfish and giant barb now averaging less than half their ...

The Tonle Sap River is roughly 100 kilometers long, starting at the Tonle Sap Lake in northwestern Cambodia. It is midday in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. The Mekong River, having mixed with ...

Daniel Moss is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Asian economies. Previously, he was executive editor for economics at Bloomberg News. Save The Mekong River is more than the sum of its nearly ...

A big spike in water levels has been detected along the Mekong River which could threaten the livelihoods of tens of thousands of people who live hand to mouth off crops planted along the banks of the ...

Satellite data show at least 27 new rare earth mines have opened across Laos since 2022, mostly in protected areas and many within the Mekong River Basin, raising transboundary pollution risks for ...