Satellite data show burst of deforestation in Myanmar rare earth mining hotspots
via news.mongabay.com
Short excerpt below. Read at the original source.
Myanmar’s Kachin state, near the border with China, is a global hub for rare earth minerals. But the dearth of regulations over mining these resources has come at a steep cost to the area’s subtropical and moist forests, according to researchers and satellite imagery collected by Mongabay. Civil society sources in the region, who requested […]