During the Vietnam war, napalm and a cocktail of weaponised herbicides destroyed more than half of the mangroves in the Mekong delta.

越南战争，固汽油弹和武器化除草剂破坏了湄公河三角洲一半以上的红树林。

It was my sister who first had the idea to cycle along the entire Mekong River from where it begins to where it ends.

首先想到要沿湄公河从源头到终点骑车旅行的是我的姐姐。

Like the famous Mekong Water Puppet Troupe, performing in the City Gardens this week.

比如这周在城市花园表演的湄公河水木偶剧团。

It would be the first dam across the Thai stretch of the Mekong.

该坝将会是湄公河在泰国这边的第一个水坝。

Same story for crops in Vietnam, with the Mekong River at record low levels.

随着湄公河水创历史新低，农作物同样的一幕也发生在越南。

Lying along the Saigon River near the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City was formerly known as Saigon and served as the capital of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

胡志明市于越南南部湄公河三角洲附近的西贡河沿岸，原名西贡，在越南战争曾是南越的首都。

Hogan has been studying biodiversity in the Mekong for more than 20 years.

霍根研究湄公河生物多样性已有20多年。

Vo Van Van is a 60-year-old rice farmer who lives along the Mekong River.

Vo Van Van是一60岁的稻农，住在湄公河沿岸。

In Laos, rescuers pulled bodies from the muddy Mekong River.

老挝的救援人员正在从泥泞的湄公河中打捞尸体。

The plane went into the Mekong around 2-kilometers from the airport.

飞机在距机场约2公里的地方坠入湄公河。

The diplomat announced six measures that will benefit the countries along the river.

这外交官宣布了六项惠于湄公河沿岸国家的举措。

After it leaves China and the high altitude, the Mekong becomes wide，brown and warm.

流出中国，流出高地后，湄公河就变宽，变暖了。河水也变成了黄褐色。

But the Mekong river doesn't just flow through Vietnam.

但是，湄公河并不仅仅流经越南。

" And there are a lot of debates about how the two periods related to each other, but we lacked the evidence in the area I'm most interested in, which is the Mekong Valley."

“对于两个时的彼此关联方式存在大量争论，但我们缺少我最感兴趣的这个地区——湄公河流域——的证据。”

It would not only accelerate climate warming and raise sea levels; it would also imperil the water resources of hundreds of millions of people, as the glaciers feed three of Asia's largest rivers: the Yellow, Yangtze, and Mekong.

这不仅会加速气候变暖和海平面上升，还会危及数亿人的水资源，因为这些冰川滋养着亚洲三大河流：黄河、长江和湄公河。

25 km from the heritage town, a Mekong River hydropower project under construction since January, casts a dark shadow over the future of this UNESCO world heritage site.

距离遗产城镇25公里，湄公河水电项目自1月份以来一直在建设中，给这个联合国教科组织世界遗产的未来蒙上了阴影。

Two of the rivers are in Africa, the Nile and the Niger while the remaining eight are in Asia, the Ganges, Indus, Yellow, Yangtze, Haihe, Pearl, Mekong and Amur.

其中两条河流在非洲，是尼罗河和尼日尔河，其余八条在亚洲：恒河、印度河、黄河、长江、海河、珠江、湄公河和阿穆尔河（黑龙江）。

From the Mississippi to the Mekong, farmers and researchers are finding creative fixes for the dire threats of global warming, extreme rains and sea level rise.

从密西西比河到湄公河，农民和研究人员正在寻找创新的办法来应对全球变暖、极端降雨和海平面上升等严重威胁。

That is more water than the Nile, Congo, Ganges, Yangtze, St Lawrence, Mississippi, Mekong, Volga, Danube, and rhine rivers all combined by a long shot.

这比尼罗河、刚果河、恒河、长江、圣劳伦斯河、密西西比河、湄公河、伏尔加河、多瑙河和莱茵河的水量加起来还要多。

Of course, she hadn't; my sister doesn't care about details. So I told her that the source of the Mekong is in Qinghai Province.

然她并没有看过，我的姐姐是不会考虑细节的。于是我告诉她湄公河的源头在青海省。