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Dam controversy: Remaking the Mekong

Scientists are hoping to stall plans to erect a string of dams along the Mekong River.

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Gayathri Vaidyanathan is a reporter with Greenwire in Washington DC. She was previously an International Development Research Center fellow at Nature.

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Vaidyanathan, G. Dam controversy: Remaking the Mekong. Nature 478, 305–307 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/478305a

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