The Straits Times

Toxic mines put South-east Asia’s rivers and people at risk, says study

THA TON, Thailand – For most of her life, 59-year-old farmer Tip Kamlue has irrigated her fields in northern Thailand with water from the Kok River, which flows down from neighbouring Myanmar before ...
Channel NewsAsia Singapore

Toxic mines put Southeast Asia's rivers, people at risk: Study

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 neighbouring Myanmar before ...
Reuters

Toxic mines put Southeast Asia's rivers, people at risk, study says

New research shows over 2,400 mines along mainland Southeast Asia rivers Mines may be releasing deadly chemicals into river water, says Stimson Center think-tank Many rare earths mines operate with ...
Mongabay

Forest diversity is key to Southeast Asia’s climate adaptability, study shows

A new fossil study indicates that Southeast Asia’s forests were more resilient to past climate change than previously thought. In contrast to the theory that a vast savanna corridor expanded across ...
EurekAlert!

Largest study of Asia's rivers unearths 800 years of paleoclimate patterns

813 years of annual river discharge at 62 stations, 41 rivers in 16 countries, from 1200 to 2012. That is what researchers at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) produced after ...