Stretching over 4,000 kilometers from the Tibetan Plateau to the South China Sea, the Mekong River supports more than 60 ...

Global demand for rare earth minerals is driving the toxic pollution of some of Asia’s most important rivers, threatening the health and livelihoods of tens of millions of people.

The mighty Mekong River, which has sustained civilizations for thousands of years, now faces an unprecedented crisis that ...

Inside China’s Rare Earth Empire: The Hidden Costs in Myanmar Amid mounting concerns surrounding the degradation of the Mekong River, authorities from four of the countries responsible for the longest ...

The bend in the Mekong River where Laotian authorities want to build the Pak Beng hydropower dam is described as one of the most beautiful stretches along all of the 4,000-kilometer (2700-mile) river.

For most of her life, 59-year-old farmer Tip Kamlue has irrigated her fields in northern Thailand with the waters of the Kok ...

Sources have requested pseudonyms be used to protect their identity out of fear of retaliation from the government or mining ...

At top, a team of Cambodian and American scientists and researchers along with Fisheries Administration officials last year measured the length of a giant freshwater stingray from snout to tail before ...

Hydropower projects, including a spree of mega-dams in China, have had a significant impact on the midstream reaches of the Mekong River, exacerbating drought conditions and altering the river’s flow ...

I was joking – sort of – at a restaurant in Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital city, after the waiter brought two of the large and hairy deep-fried arachnids to the table after the main course. At first, ...

Six critically endangered Mekong giant catfish — one of the largest and rarest freshwater fish in the world — were caught and released recently in Cambodia, reviving hopes for the survival of the ...

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- A newborn Mekong Irrawaddy dolphin was spotted on Monday in Cambodia, increasing the total population of the aquatic mammals to 112, the country's Ministry of ...