Environmental news from Thailand — climate, air quality, conservation and sustainability, in English from Thai PBS World.
Thailand’s Pollution Control Department is set to launch the 2nd phase of the Action Plan on Plastic Waste Management on July 3rd, which is International Plastic Bag Free Day. The 2nd phase targets a reduction in the amount of single-use plastic bags destined for landfills by 100% by the end of 2027. The second target
Siren blaring, Sunil Kumar Naik’s ambulance tore across a dry and rocky countryside blasted by dangerous midday heat, rushing to check on a vomiting and dizzy 30-year-old man with possible heat stroke. As soon as they reached the man’s village, Naik’s paramedic partner guided the stricken man into the ambulance, then checked his pulse and
People living downstream of the Bhumibol and Sirikit dams have been advised to use water economically, as the levels in the reservoirs behind the two major dams are steadily falling, due to lack of rainfall upstream. According to Worapoj Worapong, director of the Bhumibol dam, the water in the reservoir is currently at 49.7% of
The first phase of the world’s largest hydro-solar power station at the highest altitude has been put into operation beginning Sunday. The first phase of the Kela photovoltaic power station is located on a mountain at an altitude of 4,600 meters in Yajiang County of Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of southwest China’s Sichuan Province. With
The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has shown to the media a system to release treated and diluted water from the facility into the ocean. Tokyo Electric Power Company completed the construction of the system on Monday. It has been building it since last August. A gigantic pipe for diluting treated
When it comes to flying, going green may cost you more. And it’s going to take a while for the strategy to take off. Sustainability was a hot topic this week at the Paris Air Show, the world’s largest event for the aviation industry, which faces increasing pressure to reduce the climate-changing greenhouse gases that
Heatwaves across Asia and beyond have already broken records this year, while the arrival of the El Nino climate phenomenon will mean even more extreme temperatures. Here AFP looks at how climate change produces extreme heat, how scientists evaluate heatwaves and the risks to human health: What is extreme heat? Extreme heat is defined from a baseline of the average temperature in any one location, which varies widely across the world.
Record-breaking heatwaves that hit large parts of South and Southeast Asia in April were made “30 times more likely” as a result of human-induced climate change, an international team of scientists said on Wednesday. The region saw temperatures in excess of 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) last month, with Bangladesh at its hottest in 50
The amount of water in Thailand’s major reservoirs is critically low, with only 13.789 billion cubic metres, out of a combined total of 37.323 billion cubic metres (19%), usable for consumption, agriculture and the protection of the ecological system, according to the National Water and Climate Data Centre. The situation in the west is of
Thailand’s National Water Command Centre has advised people living in low-lying areas, at the foot of mountains and near rivers in 22 districts of nine provinces to brace for flash floods, waterway overflows and mud slides, due to heavy rain expected in the next three days. The 22 districts expected to be affected are: Tha
A Taiwanese award-winning SME “O’right” funded an expedition, sending a film crew to Greenland to document the impact of climate change, in a film called ‘’Melting Greenland”, and to get insights from activists, government officials and environmental experts. To address urgent climate change issues, O’right’s general manager, Yvonne Tsai, and chairman of O’right Thailand and
Dengue fever cases are steadily rising and not only among children. 18,000 elderly people have caught the disease in the first five months of this year, according to Dr. Thongchai Keeratihattayakorn, director-general of the Medical Services Department. He said that the change of weather conditions, induced by the El Niño phenomenon, will increase dengue cases,
