3-foot-long river creature with ‘large’ teeth found in Vietnam. It’s a new species
The trawlers didn’t know it, but they’d just caught a new species. Researchers visited the Mekong River estuary near Ho Chi Minh City between 2023 and 2024 to survey a group of fish known as snake ...
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Harnessing the Mekong or Killing It?
When finished next year, it will be the eighth dam on the Lancang River—China's name for its 1,300-mile stretch of the Mekong. In recent years Boontom and many others here have sold their ...
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Laos Travel Guide
Laos is Southeast Asia’s only landlocked country, yet, paradoxically, life revolves around water. Running the length of the mainly mountainous country is the mighty Mekong River, which floods ...
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Cambodian minister urges joint efforts to preserve rare Mekong River dolphins
KRATIE: Cambodian Minister of Information Neth Pheaktra on Sunday (March 9) called for concerted efforts to protect and preserve critically endangered Mekong River Irrawaddy dolphins. "We urge ...