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Saving the Mekong: The arduous battle to sustain life along South-east Asia’s longest river
River water should instead be full of silt. The Mekong, South-east Asia’s main artery, winds 4,900km through China, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Its basin is dotted with 190 ...
Time21d
Southeast Asia: The Muddied Mekong
They envision a vast project to harness the Mekong River for power, irrigation and flood control; that could enable the region to grow enough food to feed much of Asia and attract foreign ...
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Ghostly monkey and crocodile newts among new Mekong area species
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) conservation group has published a list of 224 newly discovered species from the greater Mekong region ... area in South-East Asia include habitat destruction ...
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Wild Mekong: New species in 2010 from the forests, wetlands and waters of the Greater Mekong, Asia’s land of rivers
This rate of discovery marks Asia’s land of rivers as one of the last frontiers for new species discoveries on our planet. The Greater Mekong region of Southeast Asia through which the Mekong river ...
Channel NewsAsia Singapore14d
Increased risk of fires, transboundary haze in Mekong sub-region as dry season begins
which could bring about wetter-than-average weather over some parts of Southeast Asia. "However, its effects on rainfall may not be pronounced over the Mekong sub-region and there may still be a ...