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Mekong a 'treasure trove' of 1,000 newly discovered species
(CNN)-- A rat believed to be extinct for 11 million ... There are 150 large hydropower dams that have been constructed along the Mekong river, and another 150 are slated to be built, according ...
3-foot-long river creature with ‘large’ teeth found in Vietnam. It’s a new species
The trawlers didn’t know it, but they’d just caught a new species. Researchers visited the Mekong River estuary near Ho Chi Minh City between 2023 and 2024 to survey a group of fish known as snake ...
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Harnessing the Mekong or Killing It?
When finished next year, it will be the eighth dam on the Lancang River—China's name for its 1,300-mile stretch of the Mekong. In recent years Boontom and many others here have sold their ...