The original version of this article, by Mike Ives, appeared on Yale Environment 360. Phan Dinh Duc leans against yellow sacks of freshly harvested rice. It’s a warm spring evening in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, and Duc, a local farmer, is waiting for traders to arrive by truck to purchase his produce and sell it on commodities … Continue reading Vietnam’s Rice Boom Has Steep Environmental Costs for Mekong Delta