All of the river dolphins in Asia are listed as critically endangered. The Irrawaddy dolphins have been threatened for decades: hunted by Khmer Rouge in the 1970s, bombed during the U.S.-Vietnam ...

The Mekong and Irrawaddy rivers, though unconnected and hundreds of miles apart, are both integral to life in Southeast Asia, supporting ... dam on the Mekong River-despite opposition by ...

The Irrawaddy ... elusive river dolphins playing in the ship’s wake. The sound of a car or a truck is a rarity. To explore these upper reaches is to travel back in time to the Asia of yesteryear.

Delft University of Technology's Thom Bogaard (R) and Rolf Hut (L) have been showing students in Myanmar how to build low-cost instruments to monitor the behaviour of the Irrawaddy River.