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China’s Rare Earth Rush Is Poisoning the Mekong — And Southeast Asia Is Paying the Price
For seventy million people, the Mekong River isn’t scenery. It’s dinner. It’s income. It’s the reason a village exists where it does. Now, for the first time, arsenic has been confirmed in the river’s mainstream sediment
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