Latest for @mongabay.com dives into the poisoning of the Salween River, Asia's longest free-flowing river. Unregulated mines in Myanmar have seen arsenic contamination reach dangerous levels on the Salween, leaving Indigenous Karen communities with no fish, no water and no solutions from governments
MAE HONG SON, Thailand — Saw Si Paw Rak Salween guns the wooden fishing boat’s engine and steers along the river that inspired his family name. He is ethnic Karen — his parents migrated from Myanmar’s...
