Its mangroves, coral reefs and sea grass beds serve as nurseries and spawning areas for fish. Dugong and whale sharks are among its inhabitants.
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Meet Thailand’s secret weapon in climate change battle
Flooding and droughts could ravage the city, leaving as much as 40% submerged in the next decade.
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WB-supported project to help ensure water supply for Mekong Delta
Aside from supplying water, the project will also deal with wastewater collection and treatment and drainage infrastructure.
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Cultivation improvements on agenda amid droughts
The Lao National Disaster Prevention and Control Committee is helping farmers across the country to improve their cultivation techniques so that crops can better withstand drought and dry season yields can be increased.
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New push to shut down rubber factories in Udon Thani after seven years of agony
“The once clean air in our community has been replaced by a stench and the factory’s wastewater that has affected our rice farms.”
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Community upset by land clearing arrests
Rights group has looked into the case and found that the land in question has been cleared and cultivated, as well as traded among villagers for years.
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Tunnel Work on Laos-China Railway Pollutes Local Waterways
China-Lao Railway Construction work is filling a creek in Vientiane province and other local waterways and polluting the water and harming the livelihoods of local residents
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Five rare sea turtle species recorded in southern Rakhine
Of the seven turtle species around the world, five of them — Green turtle, Hawksbill turtle, Olive Ridley turtle, Leatherback turtle and Loggerhead turtle – inhabit in Myanmar seas.
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Thailand looks to clear Bangkok’s polluted skies with giant railway linking China, Singapore
But the caveats for Thailand lie in the usual issue of how these projects are implemented, whether it will be a source of vested interests in corruption and siphoning off the budget.