The government of Laos plans to build a 1,460-megawatt hydroelectric dam upstream of the ancient city of Luang Prabang, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The…
World heritage site vulnerable to earthquake possibility, Thai specialist says Photo by Tom Fawthrop A leading Thai geologist is warning that a huge new…
Rivers contribute to transport, tourism, hydropower and resources including fish and freshwater. Yet excessive drought, dam-building and other development can ruin rivers. That is happening…
Asia’s great river is under growing threat from hydropower. The great biodiversity and precious resources of the Mekong are increasingly endangered by the rush to…
Can Tho – Vietnam wants Lao to reconsider the Pak Beng hydropower project as its environmental impacts to the Mekong Delta will strike Vietnam, Cambodia and…