Climate change and upstream dams, most of them controlled by China, are threatening Cambodia's enormous Tonle Sap Lake and its surrounding communities, putting the nation's protein supply and the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KAMPONG PHLUK, Cambodia (AP) — Em Phat, 53, ...

KOH CHIVANG, Cambodia: As night falls over his floating village, fisherman Leng Vann puffs on a cigarette and heaves a sigh for Tonle Sap, the great inland lake that has sustained Cambodia for ...

A boy untangles his family fishing net in the village of Akol. Credit: Luc Forsyth Subscribe for ads-free reading Luc Forsyth and Gareth Bright have set out on a journey to follow the Mekong river ...

A ban on illegal fishing in Tonle Sap, Cambodia’s largest lake, is hitting local communities hard — even those engaged in legal fishing. “By continuing to fish, we are forced into hiding, we are ...

“At the end of August, the Tonle Sap reached a historical low at a time when the lake should be saturated with water and fish,” said Brian Eyler, a senior fellow and director of Energy, Water, and ...

Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake is surrounded by a conservation area that consists of three zones: Zone 1 and 2, where farming is allowed, and Zone 3, which is closest to the lake and where agriculture and ...

KAMPONG PHLUK, Cambodia — Em Phat, 53, studies his eel tanks with the intensity of a man gambling with his livelihood. For millennia, fishermen like him have relied on the bounty of the Tonle Sap in ...