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Flooding in Thailand

Record-breaking floods in northern Thailand intensify scrutiny of Mekong dam project

Carolyn Cowan 24 Sep 2024
A fisherman feeds his net into the Mekong River on the Thai-Lao border by Chiang Saen.

On heavily dammed Mekong, tracking study tries to find where the fish are going

Anton L. Delgado 24 Jul 2024
Farming in Myanmar

Will the Mekong and Salween pay the price of China’s energy transition?

Carolyn Cowan 22 May 2024
Xayaburi Dam

Banks backing Mekong hydropower failing on due diligence, report reveals

Carolyn Cowan 20 May 2024
Satellite image of wildfires in Quebec, Canada, in June, 2023.

Tropical forest loss puts 2030 zero-deforestation target further out of reach

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Apr 2024
Eucalyptus trees at the Burapha Agro-Forestry plantation near Xathany District, Laos, 2023. Image courtesy of Melissa Lo.

Land tenure lesson from Laos for forest carbon projects (commentary)

Melissa Lo / Simran Kaur / Oluwole Soyinka / Sheng Huan Tang / Song Fu 2 Apr 2024
Mekong River

Hydropower in doubt as climate impacts Mekong Basin water availability

Carolyn Cowan 21 Feb 2024
A logger carries his chainsaw through the forest of the Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia. He will sell the timber to garment factories.

Shrinking civil space and persistent logging: 2023 in review in Southeast Asia

Carolyn Cowan, Gerald Flynn 28 Dec 2023

‘The police are watching’: In Mekong countries, eco defenders face rising risks

Hướng Thiện 18 Dec 2023

In Laos, forest loss and carbon emissions escalate as agriculture intensifies

Carolyn Cowan 12 Dec 2023
Rice farmers in Vietnam

Dam-building on Mekong poses risk to regional industries, report says

Carolyn Cowan 8 Nov 2023
Coffee growers in Vietnam

EU deforestation-free rule ‘highly challenging’ for SE Asia smallholders, experts say

Carolyn Cowan 20 Sep 2023
Chiang Mai lawsuit

Citizens demand sustainable solution to haze crisis in northern Thailand

Carolyn Cowan 6 Jun 2023
Calotes goetzi

Greater Mekong proves an ark of biodiversity, with 380 new species in a year

Liz Kimbrough 24 May 2023
Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia.

Robust river governance key to restoring Mekong River vitality in face of dams

Carolyn Cowan 30 Mar 2023
Fishers pull in nets on Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia

As hydropower dams quell the Mekong’s life force, what are the costs?

Carolyn Cowan 29 Mar 2023
A pangolin.

SE Asia’s COVID legacy is less wildlife trade, but more hunting, study finds

Spoorthy Raman 7 Mar 2023
Pygmy loris

The slow, toxic and sleepy life of lorises is coded in their genes

Carolyn Cowan 11 Oct 2022
Cambodia's fisheries and food security are at stake as dams continue to blight the Mekong River

Cambodian mega dam’s resurrection on the Mekong ‘the beginning of the end’

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 15 Sep 2022
The Sekong River is a key tributary for the Mekong River.

In the Mekong Basin, an ‘unnecessary’ dam poses an outsized threat

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 14 Sep 2022
Clouded leopard

Southeast Asia’s big cats like their prey rare — as in really elusive

Carolyn Cowan 6 Sep 2022
Rosewood flowering

Overexploited and underprotected: Study urges action on Asia’s rosewoods

Carolyn Cowan 13 Jun 2022

For Thai fishers facing dwindling catches, a Lao dam looms large

Tom Fawthrop 10 Jun 2022
Tourists petting a tiger cub at Doc Antle's Myrtle Beach Tiger Safari in South Carolina, U.S. Antle faces federal charges for wildlife trafficking.

Year of the Tiger: Illegal trade thrives amid efforts to save wild tigers

Sharon Guynup 31 May 2022
Irrawaddy dolphin in the Mekong river © WWF-Cambodia / Tan Someth Bunwath

Death of last river dolphin in Laos rings alarm bells for Mekong population

Carolyn Cowan 14 Apr 2022
Camera trap photo of an Annamite dark muntjac in the Annamite mountains. Photo courtesy of Leibniz-IZW / WWF-Viet Nam / Song Thanh National Park

Rare mammals caught on camera highlight value of Annamite Mountains

Carolyn Cowan 30 Mar 2022
Gibbon

Greater Mekong primates struggle to cling on amid persistent threats: Report

Carolyn Cowan 17 Jan 2022

How can illegal timber trade in the Greater Mekong be stopped?

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 30 Dec 2021
Captive tiger

Tiger farms doing little to end wild poaching, Vietnam consumer study shows

Carolyn Cowan 29 Dec 2021

Where does the Greater Mekong’s illegal timber go?

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 16 Dec 2021

In Laos, a ‘very dangerous dam’ threatens an ancient world heritage site

Tom Fawthrop 10 Dec 2021

Why has illegal logging increased in the Greater Mekong?

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 9 Dec 2021

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