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 ...

Activists in the Mekong region have called on governments and agencies to take urgent action to protect the river from worsening environmental damage caused by hydropower dams and mining activities.

The Mekong River faces growing threats from dam construction, sand mining, climate change and the decline of international aid. Citizen science — grassroots data collection and local knowledge ...

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 ...

Surging demand for sand used in construction projects poses an existential threat to Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake, new research indicates. The seasonal expansion and contraction of ...

I first began covering the Mekong River in Southeast Asia almost two decades ago, encountering fish so immense they seemed almost mythical: giant freshwater stingrays weighing as much as a grand piano ...