{"id":4022,"date":"2026-10-08T09:46:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T01:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/?p=4022"},"modified":"2026-10-08T09:46:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T01:46:35","slug":"heavy-metal-pollution-from-rare-earth-mining-in-the-mekong-river-puts-southeast-asias-food-security-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/heavy-metal-pollution-from-rare-earth-mining-in-the-mekong-river-puts-southeast-asias-food-security-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Metal Pollution from Rare Earth Mining in the Mekong River Puts Southeast Asia\u2019s Food Security at Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thai media have published an on-the-ground investigation revealing that unregulated rare earth mining is continuing to expand in the upper reaches of the Mekong River, particularly in Myanmar and Laos. Wastewater from mining operations\u2014containing heavy metals such as arsenic, mercury, lead, and cadmium\u2014is discharged directly into mountain tributaries and ultimately flows into the Mekong River system, posing a serious threat to local ecosystems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thai media have published an on-the-ground investigation revealing that unregulated rare earth mining is continuing to expand in the upper reaches of the Mekong River, particularly in Myanmar and Laos. Wastewater from mining operations\u2014containing heavy metals such as arsenic, mercury, lead, and cadmium\u2014is discharged directly into mountain tributaries and ultimately flows into the Mekong River [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-survival"],"views":7,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4024,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions\/4024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}