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Local communities say an environmental crisis is unfolding along the Thai-Myanmar border, where dangerously high levels of arsenic have been detected in several major rivers. There is now growing evidence a surge in unregulated rare earth mining in Myanmar's southern Shan State is to blame. And now, with the contamination reaching the Mekong River, environme ... Show More
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