it will be the eighth dam on the Lancang River—China's name for its 1,300-mile stretch of the Mekong. In recent years Boontom and many others here have sold their fishing boats and switched to ...

Chinese hydroelectric power plans in Tibet threaten to destabilize the Himalayan region’s ecology and politics.

If built, the Sayabouly dam will block the sediment and nutrients that build the Mekong delta and feed its immense productivity, which provides more than 50 percent of Vietnam’s staple food crops. WWF ...

The Phou Ngoy dam is one of nine hydropower projects that the Lao government is planning on the mainstream of the Mekong River. A year of data from the Mekong Dam Monitor shows the extent of the ...

The 684 MW Sanakham hydroelectric dam project across the Mekong River, close to the Thai-Lao border in Chiang Khan District, ...

BANGKOK, April 13 (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 ...

“This means it’s not the normal Mekong water. It’s water that’s been stored behind a dam.” River water should instead be full of silt. The Mekong, South-east Asia’s main ...

WWF today launched an online petition calling on Mega First Corporation Berhad to suspend construction of the Don Sahong hydropower dam on the Mekong River that threatens the river’s critically ...

Citizens in northern Thailand staged protests along the shore of the Mekong River in Chiang ... concerns about river fisheries and underscored that if the dam is built, it would almost certainly ...

and suggest the dam projects are aimed at 'generating profits for a few' Conservationists have suggested a last-ditch recovery plan to save the "irreplaceable" biodiversity of the Mekong River, as ...

A U.S.-funded study by Eyes on Earth found a reduction in expected natural flow of the Mekong River since 2012, when one of the largest Chinese dams went on line. China rejected the study and last ...

Laos has completed two dams on the Mekong River, the 1,285-megawatt Xayaburi Dam and the 260-megawatt Don Sahong Dam last year, despite objections by environmental groups.