Credit: Quinn Goranson In the delta region of South Vietnam, where the Mekong River flows into the South China Sea, locals fear that their mother is dying. They see her banks swell and collapse ...

And with rising seas gnawing away at its southern edge and dams hemming the Mekong River upstream, farming in the fertile delta is getting harder. Its contribution to Vietnam’s GDP has dropped ...

And with rising seas gnawing away at its southern edge and dams hemming the Mekong River upstream, farming in the fertile delta is getting harder. Its contribution to Vietnam’s GDP has dropped ...

The Mekong River, fed by a series of tributaries, flows some 4,900 kilometres (3,045 miles) from its source in the Tibetan plateau through China, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam to the sea.

Erosion along the bank of the Ong Chuong River in southern An Giang Province's Cho Moi District caused the rear of 10 houses ...

Canals from the Mekong River are essential for agriculture in the delta region. (Photo: Jack Board/CNA) Climate change - especially impacts on rainfall and rising sea levels - and unsustainable ...

The Mekong Delta is not just a destination. It’s a conversation - between tradition and transformation, between host and guest, between river and sea. As Vietnam reinvests in tourism, let it not ...

Proliferating Chinese-built hydroelectric dams upriver have blocked much of the sediment that provides essential nutrients to tens of thousands of farms in the Mekong River Delta, Reuters reported ...

Today he speaks colloquial English and professes a soft spot for Mark Twain and the education Twain got on the Mississippi River. “I learned theory in Wisconsin, but the Mekong Delta is unique ...

Standing on the bank of the Mekong River, Tran Van Cung can see his rice farm wash away before his very eyes. The paddy’s edge is crumbling into the delta. Just 15 years ago, Southeast Asia’s ...