From Tibet to the ‘Nine Dragons’, Vietnam’s Mekong Delta is losing sand and houses are falling into the river

In the dead of night, the entire front half of shopkeeper Ta Thi Kim Anh’s house collapsed. Perched on the sandy banks of the Mekong River, it took just a few minutes for one half of everything she owned to plunge into its murky depths. “Our kitchen, our laundry room, our two bedrooms, all gone,” sa...

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