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Alligator gar can grow to gargantuan sizes. Zeb Hogan

July 25, 2023

In search of the world’s largest freshwater fish – the wonderfully weird giants lurking in Earth’s rivers

Stefan Lovgren, University of Nevada, Reno

Freshwater megafish numbers have fallen by 94%, according to one study.

Establishing the financial worth of a river’s fish is complicated when many people don’t sell the fish they catch. Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP via Getty Images

April 4, 2023

How much is the world’s most productive river worth? Here’s how experts estimate the value of nature

Stefan Lovgren, University of Nevada, Reno

Putting a dollar value on nature has staunch opponents who say it’s morally wrong, but without it, building dams and other infrastructure can run roughshod over vital ecosystems.

Dalat, a region in the central highlands of Vietnam, is known for its fertile land and the fruits and vegetables that grow there. As a consequence, interest in the Department of Agriculture at the Dalat Vocational Training College is high. Laurent Weyl/Collectif Argos

March 8, 2022

Climate change in Vietnam: impacts and adaptation

Étienne Espagne, Agence française de développement (AFD); Alexis Drogoul, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD); Emmanuel Pannier, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD); Manh-Hung Nguyen, Toulouse School of Economics – École d'Économie de Toulouse; Marie-Noëlle Woillez, Agence française de développement (AFD), and Thanh Ngo-Duc, University of Science and Technology of Hanoi

Data analysis suggests local activity will intensify the effects of global warming - so adapting means rethinking national development strategies

The Ganges delta spans India and Bangladesh and is home to more than 100m people. Elena11 / shutterstock

November 1, 2019

River deltas are ‘drowning’, threatening hundreds of millions of people

Frances Eleanor Dunn, Utrecht University and Stephen Darby, University of Southampton

Sea levels are rising, while deltas are being starved of sediment by upstream dams.

May 18, 2017

What’s at stake in China’s plan to blow up islands in the Mekong

Alan Marshall, Mahidol University

If the river islands are bombed away and if the riverscape is engineered into something more like a large artificial canal, then endangered species face extinction.

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