With global treaties long delayed, Mekong residents are trying to prevent plastic waste from destroying their environment.

Flowing more than 4,300 kilometers from the Tibetan Plateau to Vietnam, the Mekong River is the lifeblood of the region. It ...

The vessel No 53108 patrols the Lancang-Mekong River on Tuesday during the 148th joint patrol and law enforcement action ...

VIENTIANE -Myanmar’s ongoing crisis was raised as a possible hindrance to regional cooperation to save the Mekong River, as other countries along the important waterway pledged on Wednesday to ...

Plastic is now ubiquitous in the Mekong, Asia’s Mother of Rivers, and experts and local people are struggling to contain the ...

Along with those promises comes peril. Here is a closer look. The Mekong River flows from China through Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. It supports a fishery that accounts for 15% ...

VIENTIANE/BERLIN (dpa): Researchers working in the Mekong region in South ... working in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand ...

Researchers working in the Mekong region in South-East Asia have discovered more than 230 as yet unrecorded vertebrate and plant species over the past year, a report from the Worl ...

An eight-gram “shrew mole” that’s one of the tiniest mammals on earth and a fanged furry hedgehog are among the more than 200 ...

A lizard with a name that sounds like it could star in Game of Thrones, a soft furred hedgehog, a high-altitude crocodile ...

The Greater Mekong, which comprises Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, is a well-known biodiversity hotspot, home ...

Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam. This brings the total number of vascular plant and vertebrate animal species described in the ...