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Emily Fishbein
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Independent journalist focusing on Myanmar. Pulitzer Center Rainforest Investigations Network Fellow 2025
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December 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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burma.irrawaddy.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:53 AM
We wrote the article with a third journalist, who conducted ground reporting and chose to remain anonymous for security reasons. Read the original version, written for Yale Environment 360 with support from the Pulitzer Center's Rainforest Investigations Network, here:
e360.yale.edu/features/mya...
In Myanmar, Illicit Rare Earth Mining Is Taking a Heavy Toll
As China has cut back on domestic extraction of rare earth minerals, uncontrolled mining in Myanmar has boomed in areas ruled by powerful ethnic armies. New reporting reveals how this activity is dama...
e360.yale.edu
December 1, 2025 at 7:52 AM
This reporting also reveals new information about the harmful health, safety and environmental impacts of rare earth mining in Myanmar, where Chinese companies operate the mines and transport the rare earth to China for processing.
e360.yale.edu/features/mya...
In Myanmar, Illicit Rare Earth Mining Is Taking a Heavy Toll
As China has cut back on domestic extraction of rare earth minerals, uncontrolled mining in Myanmar has boomed in areas ruled by ethnic armies. New reporting in Wa territory reveals the activity is da...
e360.yale.edu
November 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This article, is based on ground reporting in territory controlled by the UWSA, where rare earth mining is extremely secretive and few if any journalists had previously collected firsthand information. It found that the mining is expanding near the China border. (2/3) e360.yale.edu/features/mya...
In Myanmar, Illicit Rare Earth Mining Is Taking a Heavy Toll
As China has cut back on domestic extraction of rare earth minerals, uncontrolled mining in Myanmar has boomed in areas ruled by ethnic armies. New reporting in Wa territory reveals the activity is da...
e360.yale.edu
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM