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Danger and desperation in Myanmar’s jade mines

Failure to regulate the jade industry is transforming a landscape and exposing miners to deadly landslides Andrew Nachemson, Eaint Thiri Thu November 24, 2020 “The landslide is inevitable. It is a risk, we all know,”...

The rebirth of a historic river

By Alexander Matthews10th November 2020 For over a century, one of the most important salmon runs in the United States has had to contend with historic dams – and now four of them are set...

Scientists find world’s oldest sperm in Myanmar amber

By AFP A team of paleontologists have discovered what they believe is the world’s oldest animal sperm, frozen inside a tiny crustacean in a blob of tree resin in Myanmar 100 million years ago. The oldest...

How A Beloved Gemstone Became A Symbol Of Environmental Tragedy In Myanmar

Freelance miners dig for raw jade at a company site in Hpakant, Myanmar, in 2018.Hkun Lat The jade gemstones that generate billions of dollars a year in Myanmar — the world's biggest exporter of the...

Atrocities prompt US authorities to halt funding to WWF, WCS in major blow to...

October 2, 2020 The US government has halted more than $12 million of funding to WWF, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and other conservation NGOs in a major blow to the conservation industry. The move...

Women

The KDNG's main target groups are grassroots communities who are suffering under national economic development projects. As the results, KDNG expects that women will be empowered to participate in natural resources management, which will...

Health

Kachin Backpack Health Worker Team Primary Health Care and Health Promotion for Local Peoples in Kachin State Kachin Backpack Health Worker Team was founded in 2009 as a branch health department of Kachin Development Networking Group...

Gold

The remote and environmentally rich Hugawng valley in Burma’s northern Kachin State has been internationally recognized as one of the world’s hotspots of biodiversity. Indeed, the military junta ruling Burma, together with the US-based...

Jade

Hpakant in Myanmar’s northern Kachin State holds the world’s most valuable jade deposits. However, our investigations reveal that the government system for allocating and managing jade mines is fraught with corruption, allowing a powerful...

Smallest-ever fossil dinosaur found trapped in amber

The little bird-like dinosaur Oculudentavis khaungraae probably dined on insects in a Cretaceous rainforest. By Michael Greshko PUBLISHED March 11, 2020 As Burmese amber’s scientific value grows, so too do ethical concerns around its study. Many significant...

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