Burma is a land of three rivers: the long, motherly Irrawaddy in the west ; the tired, gentle Sittang in the center; the wild Salween in the east. They rise in the northern hills, where God lives.

A team has created the most complete map of the world's rivers ever made offering a major leap forward for flood prediction, climate risk planning, and water resource management in a warming world.

Note: Map shows dams in the Mekong River basin as of December 2018, the most recent data available. Because construction and financing details are not always disclosed, China may have been ...

The 324-mile Tumen River flows from northeast China to North Korea and, toward its end, Russia, ceded to the Russian Empire by China's Qing Dynasty in the 1860s.

But it adds that many of those two rivers’ high-mountain tributaries remain undeveloped. A detailed map designed by the NGO coalition indicates that the NarynRiver in Kyrgyzstan and the Pyanj River ...

The National Hydrography Dataset Plus High Resolution map of waterways, created by the US Geological Survey, is the highest-resolution survey of its kind. With nearly 25 million rivers, streams ...

Asia Rivers Expedition. ... The screen hums as each map loads, the shoddy workstations of an internet cafe in rural Uzbekistan struggling to keep up with my dreams of paddling around the world.

River outgassing has proven to be an integral part of the carbon cycle. In Southeast Asia, river outgassing quantities are uncertain due to lack of measured data. Here we investigate six rivers in ...

Pasig River, a 27-kilometer long waterway that cuts across Metro Manila, accounted for 6.4 percent of global river plastics in Asia. Based on the interactive map produced by non-profit ...

If we are even to begin to protect the river dolphins of South Asia, it is imperative to raise local people's awareness. They can either be the dolphins' protectors or just another factor in the ...