As China cut domestic extraction, uncontrolled mining in areas of Myanmar ruled by powerful ethnic armies has boomed.

Myanmar and Tibet were shaken by earthquakes today. A shallow magnitude 3.3 quake hit Myanmar, raising concerns about ...

Great Game Intensifies For Myanmar's Kachin Rare Earths. This article first appeared on Pacific Forum and is republished with ...

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.

According to the Washington-based Stimson Center, the past decade has seem a spike in unregulated mining activity in Myanmar, ...

As the evidence piles up, scientists are urging Southeast Asia’s governments to wake up to the rare earth pollution crisis.

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 joining with the ...

Myanmar is undergoing one of the most ambitious $4 billion development projects in its history, and the scale is truly astonishing. In this video, we break down what the project includes, why it ...

The escalating global demand for rare earth minerals is causing severe pollution in Asia's crucial river systems, endangering ...

Israel began pumping desalinated seawater into the Sea of Galilee, the country’s largest lake, in an effort to reverse its decades-long decline. ● China’s outsourcing of rare-earth mineral mining has ...

The European Commission plans to set up a center to coordinate the purchases and stocks of the crucial raw materials. China ...

Brazilian rare earths miner Serra Verde has slashed the contract periods of its Chinese processing deals, opening up the ...