Hundreds of thousands of fish died in a single reservoir in Vietnam, another sign of how climate change is strangling the economy

• A prolonged drought in southeast Asia contributed to massive fish deaths in southern Vietnam.
• The climate crisis and human development threaten the Mekong Delta, a key global agricultural center.
• Despite infrastructure measures, some farmers are still struggling to access water. 

A weekslong drought across parts of southeast Asia has killed hundreds of thousands of fish in a reservoir in Vietnam and pushed a key metric for coffee prices to record levels — just two indicators of the kind of havoc the climate is wreaking on people and the economy.