The LMC was born from China’s unilateral dam building, but that same fact may also undermine the forum in the end. The cost-cutting and lack of oversight that led to the dam's collapse plague ...

New dams and their reservoirs have transformed the Lancang River—the upper Mekong—flooding riverside towns, farms, and roads. Along a reservoir created by the Gongguoqiao dam, goats are herded ...

The Mekong Delta will disappear in the next several decades once Pak Beng Dam and another 10 planned hydropower dams are built on the Mekong River in Laos and Cambodia, Townships along the Mekong ...

HANOI - The authority overseeing the transnational Mekong River wants Cambodia to share a feasibility study on the impact of ...

The first-ever acoustic telemetry network in the Mekong River has tracked key migration corridors critical to the survival of ...

Kam Thon and other women who live by the Mekong have been collecting river weed, or khai, for decades, but their harvest has fallen since China built nearly a dozen dams upstream. The dams have ...

Large dams on the Mekong River in China’s Yunnan Province have considerable impacts on downstream river flows, new researchby myself and colleagues at Aalto University in Finland and published ...

New dams must be carefully assessed and planned to avoid damaging the economy and environment of the Mekong River Lately a lot of attention was directed to the negative impacts upstream development ...

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 ...

FILE PHOTO: Starving the Mekong: Lives are remade as dams built by China upstream deprive Mekong River Delta of precious sediment ...

Scientists say dams on the main stem of the Mekong River could disrupt lives and drastically alter the environment in the region. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

The China-backed Pak Lay hydropower project is just one of nine dams that the Lao government has planned for the Mekong River.