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

Extreme drought pushes Amazon’s main rivers to lowest-ever levels

Holistic care for an Ethiopian lake system: Interview with Redwan Mohammed

Small steps towards larger goal of protecting East African wetlands

Study to benchmark water quality finds key Amazon tributary in good shape

Global migratory freshwater fish populations plummet by 81%: Report

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

Banks backing Mekong hydropower failing on due diligence, report reveals

Nile Basin farmers grow food forests to restore wetlands and bring back a turtle

Hydropower in doubt as climate impacts Mekong Basin water availability

Amazon catfish must be protected by the Convention on Migratory Species COP-14 (commentary)

Mangrove crab sustainability is vital for fishers in Indonesia’s Aru Islands

Thailand tries nature-based water management to adapt to climate change

How scientists and a community are bringing a Bornean river corridor back to life

New study pushes for protection of one of Africa’s ‘least understood treasures’

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

Oil firm Perenco eyes new blocks in DRC amid criticism of its track record

‘It gives life’: Philippine tribe fights to save a sacred river from a dam

‘Chasing giants’: Q&A with megafish biologist and author Zeb Hogan

Power of traditional beliefs lies at the heart of an anti-mine campaign in PNG

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

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

Loss of wetlands threatens South Sumatra’s rich fish-preserving tradition

Reciprocal Water Agreements protect millions of hectares of Bolivian forest

Unsustainable fishing to be banned in Irrawaddy dolphin’s Bornean sanctuary

Sulawesi hydropower dam could flood important archaeological sites

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

Mining the Mekong: Land and livelihoods lost to Cambodia’s thirst for sand

In Congo, a carbon sink like no other risks being carved up for oil

In restoring polluted rivers, Indonesia looks at restocking endemic fish

Beyond boundaries: Earth’s water cycle is being bent to breaking point

Giant stingray caught in Cambodia is world’s largest freshwater fish

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