The global push for clean energy depends on minerals like nickel and rare earths, but the extraction of those very materials is contaminating rivers across Southeast Asia, threatening the health of ...
THA TON, Thailand – For most of her life, 59-year-old farmer Tip Kamlue has irrigated her fields in northern Thailand with the waters of the Kok River, which flows down from neighboring Myanmar before ...
Global demand for rare earth minerals is driving the toxic pollution of some of Asia’s most important rivers, threatening the health and livelihoods of tens of millions of people. Rare earths are at ...
View of the Riverfront of Hội An, Vietnam. Image © Supanut Arunoprayote under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Palembang ...
Scientists warn of a regional disaster If pollution from rare earth and gold mining in Myanmar continues to spread toxins further along the Mekong River.
If you liked this story, share it with other people. 2025 has been a year of global upheaval, and Southeast Asia was no exception, with massive disruption caused by changes in U.S. policy and the ...
In conversation with Dr Iftekhar Iqbal, renowned historian, author, and Associate Professor of History at Universiti Brunei Darussalam, about his book The Range of the River: A Riverine History of ...
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