The Salween River in Thailand’s Mae Hong Son province, where it forms a portion of the border with Myanmar. Mainland Southeast Asia is at risk from a proliferation of unregulated mining operations ...

Rivers are known to naturally meander, change courses, braid and branch. But as rising temperatures melt glaciers and thaw frozen ground, the courses of Himalayan rivers are shifting and changing ...

Global demand for rare earth minerals is driving the toxic pollution of some of Asia’s most important rivers, threatening the health and livelihoods of tens of millions of people. Rare earths are at ...

In conversation with Dr Iftekhar Iqbal, renowned historian, author, and Associate Professor of History at Universiti Brunei Darussalam, about his book The Range of the River: A Riverine History of ...

The Salween River, one of Asia’s last free-flowing rivers, supports Indigenous communities and biodiversity across China, Myanmar and Thailand, but faces threats from at least 20 proposed hydropower ...

Bangladesh has just approved one of the largest river engineering projects its history: the Padma Barrage, a vast river-control project intended to restore water in the country’s drought-prone ...