Friday, October 7, 2016

Will climate change sink the Mekong Delta?

That paradox was much on my mind during a recent visit back to Vietnam’s fabulously fertile Mekong Delta, a soggy plain the size of Switzerland. Here the livelihood of 20 percent of Vietnam’s 92 million people is gravely threatened by climate change and by a manmade catastrophe, the seemingly unstoppable damming of the upper reaches of the Mekong River.   https://news.mongabay.com/2016/10/will-climate-change-sink-the-mekong-delta/
Article courtesy of Mongabay by David Brown

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