Michael Yamashitaのインスタグラム(yamashitaphoto) - 7月22日 03時02分

A farmer fills his irrigation buckets from the Mekong River, outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. The river here broadens to lake-size proportions — 2 to 3 miles wide -- that even oceangoing vessels can pass through. However, in late 2019 the normally chocolate-colored Mekong, as seen here, began to turn a clear blue, a sign that the river has been stripped of the brown sediment it normally transports downstream. This vital sediment enriches the soils of the basin but is now being held back by upstream dams. These dams, coupled with record-breaking high temperatures and drought have led to uncharted and dangerously low waters for the Mekong River, the lifeblood of Southeast Asia that has nourished civilizations for thousands of years. No country is feeling the heat more than Cambodia. My wish is to revisit the Mekong to document these changes as soon as Covid-19 travel restrictions are lifted in hopes of drawing world attention to this crisis. #mekong #mekongriver #phnompenh #climatechange

To see the Mekong as a wild river, please have a look at my book, “Mekong: A Journey on the Mother of Waters” photographed from its source in Tibet, 3000 miles to its mouth in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta— a limited number of signed copies of this out-of-print book are available to purchase from our website michaelyamashita.com or thru the link in our profile.

[BIHAKUEN]UVシールド(UVShield)

>> 飲む日焼け止め！「UVシールド」を購入する