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How the 'green' mining boom is contaminating indigenous rivers in Southeast Asia - DW News
Southeast Asia is seeing a boom in unregulated mining, driven by the rising price of gold and growing demand for critical minerals key to the green energy sector. DW visits Indigenous and remote, rural communities in Laos and Cambodia who say that nearby mines have polluted their rivers. Community activists are trying to stand up for their villages and unique ways of life, but has their reliance on their only water source been irreparably damaged?