A number of Chinese companies have received approval from the Cambodian government to build hydropower dams across the Mekong.
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‘Black gold’ – villages abandon farming to embrace lucrative trade in human hair
In the past two decades, as the effects of climate change make farming more difficult, locals have turned to another, perhaps unexpected natural resource for their livelihoods: human hair.
Laos blames droughts on climate change
For the first half of 2019, the rainfall in Nam Ou basin, the biggest of the Mekong tributaries in Laos, decreased 41 percent compared to the same period in 2018 and continued to drop to 29 percent during July to September.
Early saltwater intrusion threatens yet another Mekong Delta crisis
With saltwater intruding deep and earlier than expected, people living in the Mekong Delta face a crippling freshwater shortage.
3 insights to improve MRC’a Mekong State of the Basin Report
Mekong River Commissions recent State of the Basin Report is laudable, but the next iteration needs to serve decision-makers better.
Mekong basin’s vanishing fish signal tough times ahead in Cambodia
“Hydropower development through 2040 will eliminate migratory fish in large parts of the Mekong. No Mekong migratory fish species will be able to survive in the reservoirs of dams planned by 2020 and 2040.
Mekong Delta’s ornamental plants’ growing district affected by saltwater in rivers
The salinity rates had never been so high in previous years since Chợ Lách is located furthest from the sea in the province.
After decades in darkness, this entire Thai village is now powered by solar energy
In 2018, solar panels were installed on the last of the 400 homes in Wong Wan, under a community-led initiative that finally solved a problem that authorities had not been able to fix in decades.
Plantations Skirted Laws to Amass Land, Driving Locals Into Debt
Thousands of indigenous Kuy people in Preah Vihear province are losing their livelihoods as due to one Chinese company clearing 20,000 hectares of forests and locals’ farmland.
Plundering Cambodia’s forests
Meet the man on a mission to take down Cambodia’s timber tycoons and expose a rampant illegal cross-border trade.