Dangerous levels of arsenic in a northern Thai river contaminated by chemicals used in mines across the border in Myanmar risk unleashing an unprecedented ecological disaster on the kingdom’s waterways, environmentalists have warned, as images of the orange-yellow waters go viral.
Bangkok is seeking renewed talks with Myanmar’s junta to stop the toxic sediment flowing downstream into the Kok River, which runs from Shan State, in Myanmar through Thailand’s border province of Chiang Rai.
But the…
