southern Vietnam

In Vietnam, farmers are reducing methane emissions by changing the way they grow rice

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LONG AN, Vietnam (AP) — There is one thing that sets the rice fields of 60-year-old Vo Van Van apart from a mosaic of thousands of other emerald fields in Long An province in southern Vietnam’s Mekong Delta: It is not complete flooded. That and the giant drone, with a wingspan resembling that of an … Read more

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, the pull to move to the city becomes even stronger amid climate shocks

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CAN THO, Vietnam (AP) — Dao Bao Tran and her brother Do Hoang Trung, 11-year-old twins growing up on a rickety houseboat in the Mekong Delta, have dreams. Tran likes K-pop, watches videos at night to learn Korean and would like to visit Seoul. Trung wants to become a singer. But their hopes are “unrealistic,” … Read more