not Southeast Asia, became the first to dam the main stem of the river. ThailandThe hunger for electricity in Thailand is driving dam construction on the lower Mekong in Laos and Cambodia.

The 1.7 million hectare site features sections of the upper reaches of three of the great rivers of Asia: the Yangtze (Jinsha), Mekong and Salween which run approximately parallel, north to south, ...

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 artery, winds 4,900km through China, Myanmar, Thailand ...

A year of data from the Mekong Dam Monitor shows the extent of the impact on Southeast Asia's longest river. A conversation with Brian Eyler of the Stimson Center.

Despite its gargantuan size, but also because of it, the giant catfish lives a tenuous existence in the murky waters of its native river, Southeast Asia’s Mekong, where its numbers have ...

The Mekong, one of Asia’s longest rivers, stretches through Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. The river ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. AbstractHydropower development of the Mekong Basin is proceeding at an increasingly rapid pace. Hydropower has already affected the ...