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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

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

Fadhil Nugraha, Mahesa Putra 15 Mar 2023
Forests of Bolivia.

Reciprocal Water Agreements protect millions of hectares of Bolivian forest

Michelle Carrere 19 Jan 2023

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

Basten Gokkon 22 Dec 2022
Karama River

Sulawesi hydropower dam could flood important archaeological sites

Agus Mawan 14 Dec 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
Hak Bopha of Roka Koang commune watches out over the Mekong River where sand mining barges pass by

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

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 29 Aug 2022
Study co-author Corneille Ewango.

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

John Cannon 28 Jul 2022

In restoring polluted rivers, Indonesia looks at restocking endemic fish

Basten Gokkon, L. Darmawan 12 Jul 2022
Framers tending to their agricultural land in Uzbekistan.

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

Petro Kotzé 21 Jun 2022
Giant freshwater stingray

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

Carolyn Cowan 21 Jun 2022
Giant stingray

In the Mekong’s murky depths, giants abound, new expedition finds

Carolyn Cowan 24 May 2022
Detroit Dam in Oregon

The world’s dams: Doing major harm but a manageable problem?

Petro Kotzé 21 Apr 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
ransgenic zebrafish expressing different fluorescent colours.

GM fish engineered to glow in the dark are found in Brazil creeks

Sue Branford 6 Apr 2022
NASA satellite image of the Rio Tapajos in March 2022.

Dams on Brazil’s Jamanxim River: The advancing assault on the environment and Indigenous peoples in the Tapajós basin (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 29 Mar 2022

Cambodian project aims to revive flagging fish populations in Tonle Sap Lake

Carolyn Cowan 22 Mar 2022

Pharmaceutical water pollution detected deep in the Brazilian Amazon

Jenny Gonzales 21 Mar 2022
Goby

One fish, two fish: New goby species described from the Philippines

Carolyn Cowan 21 Feb 2022

Congo Peatlands

Mongabay.com 21 Dec 2021

The past, present and future of the Congo peatlands: 10 takeaways from our series

John Cannon 16 Dec 2021

Carbon and communities: The future of the Congo Basin peatlands

John Cannon 14 Dec 2021

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

Tom Fawthrop 10 Dec 2021

Holding agriculture and logging at bay in the Congo peatlands

John Cannon 9 Dec 2021
Great barrier reef. Image by Ayanadak123 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Restoring coastal forests can protect coral reefs against sediment runoff: Study

Aimee Gabay 7 Dec 2021

Layers of carbon: The Congo Basin peatlands and oil

John Cannon 7 Dec 2021

The ‘idea’: Uncovering the peatlands of the Congo Basin

John Cannon 2 Dec 2021

Young forests can help heal tropical aquatic ecosystems: Study

Aimee Gabay 19 Nov 2021

Stretch of Borneo’s Mahakam River eyed for protection to save Irrawaddy dolphins

Basten Gokkon 5 Nov 2021
dolphin

Pingers on fishing nets found to save river dolphins in Indonesian Borneo

Carolyn Cowan 29 Oct 2021

In a sea of oil palms, even monitor lizards need islands of natural forest

Carolyn Cowan 11 Oct 2021

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