Upriver dams and a devastating drought this year brought the Mekong to its lowest level ever recorded. And the combination has left the Tonle Sap Lake—Southeast Asia's largest—in crisis.

Kompong Luong, a floating village, sits on Tonle Sap Lake, one of the most important wetland areas in the Mekong Basin. Ecologically, the most crucial wetland area in the Mekong Basin is Southeast ...

The captured fish were apparently migrating from their floodplain habitats near Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake northward along the Mekong River, likely to spawning grounds in northern Cambodia ...

And as the lake goes, so goes the greater Mekong ecosystem. MICHAEL SULLIVAN, BYLINE: They partied at Cambodia's annual water festival in Phnom Penh this week. Next year's celebration may be more ...

Like the Mekong River as a whole, Tonle Sap Lake is beset by problems both local and global. In recent years, a trifecta of climate change, overfishing and the creation of new dams has threatened ...

Water typically flows into the Tonle Sap Lake for 120 days during the wet season, swelling it as much as six-fold before running back into the Mekong River as the rainy season ends, usually in ...

Tonle Sap — Southeast Asia's largest fresh water lake — ought to be full of water and fish. "Once again, the Mekong's wet season is experiencing anomalously low levels of rainfall," Brian ...

Banner image: In Kampong Phluk, a floating village on Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake, a fisherman collects his catch. The Mekong’s Forgotten Fishes report said there is “evidence of an 88% ...

Tonle Sap Lake, which is the largest and most significant wetland biosphere of the Mekong River Basin, has been damaged by the impacts of upstream hydropower dams, said Mr Sithirith. This ...