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Having first visited Thailand as a backpacker two decades ago - and returned annually ever since - my hotel tally broke 100 some time ago.
The Yarlung Tansgpo / Brahmaputra dam shows we often don’t know how to deal with rivers that cross national borders.
China recently approved the construction of the world's largest hydropower dam, across the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet. When fully up and running, it will be the world's largest power plant—by some ...
"It is the sixth dolphin calf born in 2025." The Mekong River Irrawaddy dolphins have been listed since 2004 as critically endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red ...
Rapacious mining operations pump water used for gold extraction straight back into the river without treatment, raising arsenic levels to 26 times the safe level in parts of Chiang Mai.
Christopher St. Cavish talks China's 'salt capital', David Swanson leads us down a river cruise and Bibek Bhandari remembers 2000s-era Beijing I was scrolling through Instagram, as one does, when a ...
In spite of many political obstacles, four southeast Asian nations helped by 14 others under UN auspices are engaged in thorough advance planning for a historic experiment in river development ...
Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai residents warned to avoid Kok River—highly toxic contamination found, over twice the safety limit, posing life-threatening risks. Chiang Mai’s Office of Environment and ...