In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, the lure of moving to the city grows even stronger amid climate shocks
Published on: Tuesday 12 March 2024
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. Such dreams have a way of dissipating in southern Vietnam's Mekong, one of the most climate-vulnerable regions in the world. A U.N. climate change report in 2022 warned there will be more floods in the wet season and drought in the dry season.