Embarking on a Mekong River cruise through Cambodia and Vietnam offers an extraordinary window into Southeast Asia's heart and soul, where ancient traditions seamlessly blend with rapidly developing ...

A new study has found that the Mekong River’s largest freshwater fish are shrinking in size, with critically endangered species like the giant catfish and giant barb now averaging less than half their ...

The first-ever acoustic telemetry network in the Mekong River has tracked key migration corridors critical to the survival of fish in Cambodia and Laos. To conduct the study, researchers caught fish ...

Mekong wetlands are often overlooked in conservation efforts, but new research shows they are essential to local ecosystems and economy. The 958-foot-tall Xiaowan Dam—the world’s sixth ...

I first began covering the Mekong River in Southeast Asia almost two decades ago, encountering fish so immense they seemed almost mythical: giant freshwater stingrays weighing as much as a grand piano ...

Two Mekong giant catfish called "trey riech" (for royal fish) in Khmer, a critically endangered species, were released in a ceremony at the confluence of Cambodia’s Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers. The ...

The net went heavy in a way the Cambodian fishers had never felt before. Whatever they had hooked off Koh Preah island in June 2022 refused to thrash or surface. It simply pressed downward, anchoring ...