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There's still hope for the Mekong
News, Published on 11/01/2021
» Until the onset of major dam construction in the higher elevations of the Mekong basin, its lower, broader reaches constituted the world's largest inland freshwater fishery and the mainstay for the employment, food security and nutrition for 60 or more million people. Tragically, over both of the last two May-October wet seasons, the mainstream experienced unprecedented low flows. In both years the normally reliable "flood pulse" was insufficient to meaningfully reverse the flow of Cambodia's Tonle Sap River to into its Great Lake, the "beating heart" of the fishery whose annual catch is directly proportional to its volume during the flood season.
Damp, dark and disarrayed, Florida tackles Irma’s aftermath
New York Times, Published on 12/09/2017
» Florida emerged from Hurricane Irma on Monday as a landscape of blacked-out cities, shuttered gas stations, shattered trees and flooded streets, while the now-weakened storm kept sweeping northward.
A call for basin-wide energy plans
News, Published on 08/11/2016
» Preparatory work for the next big dam on the Mekong -- Pak Beng -- in northern Laos has begun. This news supports the widespread narrative that the current rapid pace of dam construction on the Mekong River will continue until the entire river is turned into a series of reservoirs. Certainly the construction of even a few large dams will severely impact food security in the world's most productive freshwater fishery and sharply reduce the delivery of nutrient-rich sediment needed to sustain agriculture, especially in Cambodia and Vietnam's Mekong Delta.
Mekong water crisis compounded by rice-killing drought
Bloomberg News, Published on 19/04/2016
» HANOI -- The 3.6 hectares in southern Vietnam that double as rice paddy and shrimp pond for farmer Nguyen Thi Tam have become a wasteland. After the worst drought in 90 years, almost nothing grows.
Ireland changes as Earls, Zebo to miss out in Paris
AFP, Published on 11/02/2016
» DUBLIN - Johnny Sexton, Sean O'Brien and Rob Kearney have all been passed fit and were named on Thursday in Ireland's team to face France in the Six Nations in Paris.
Indonesia under pressure to save forests
Published on 26/10/2013
» At home and abroad, Indonesia is highlighting its progress in curbing the environmental destruction that has depleted forests and made the country a leading source of greenhouse gases. But environmentalists are unconvinced.