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In Mekong Delta, rice boom has steep environmental cost
2013-07-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale 360: Phan Dinh Duc leans against yellow sacks of freshly harvested rice. Its a warm spring evening in Vietnams Mekong Delta, and Duc, a local farmer, is waiting for traders to arrive by truck to purchase his produce and sell it on commodities markets. Beyond him lies a vast checkerboard of rice paddies, each filled with water and bordered by a network of canals and roughly 10-foot-high earthen dikes. They enable year-round rice cultivation in an area where, a half century ago, vast floodplains typically...
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Mekong Mystery: Dwindling Fish
2013-05-23 13:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Jeff Opperman, a senior freshwater scientist with the Nature Conservancy, is taking a once-in-a-lifetime trip down the Mekong River in Southeast Asia with his wife and two children, ages 8 and 10. Previous posts can be found here. As we traveled down the Mekong River, I kept hearing variations of the same story: There are fewer fish. Our guide in the Four Thousand Island region of Laos relayed that fishermen now work longer hours and catch fewer fish. At a fishing camp just below Khone Falls,...
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Impact of deforestation on wildlife in the greater Mekong
2013-05-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Five Asian countries have lost nearly one-third of their forests in the last 35 years, a new report from WWF shows. Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Thailand and Vietnam could be left with little more than 10-20% of their original cover by 2030, with devastating effects on wildlife and humans
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Greater Mekong countries 'lost one-third of forest cover in 40 years'
2013-05-02 11:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Five Asian countries have lost nearly one-third of their forests in the last 35 years and could be left with little more than 10-20% of their original cover by 2030 with devastating effects on wildlife and humans, a new report suggests. Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Thailand and Vietnam have lost nearly 40m hectares (ha) of forest cover since 1980 but have retained about 98m ha of natural forest, just over half of the region's land area. Using satellite data, the WWF researchers calculated that...
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The river of plenty: uncovering the secrets of the amazing Mekong
2013-04-23 16:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Home to giant catfish and stingrays, feeding over 60 million people, and with the largest abundance of freshwater fish in the world, the Mekong River, and its numerous tributaries, brings food, culture, and life to much of Southeast Asia. Despite this, little is known about the biodiversity and ecosystems of the Mekong, which is second only to the Amazon in terms of freshwater biodiversity. Meanwhile, the river is facing an existential crisis in the form of 77 proposed dams, while population growth,...
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