Environmental news from Thailand — climate, air quality, conservation and sustainability, in English from Thai PBS World.
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations and Pakistan issued an appeal Tuesday for $160 million in emergency funding to help millions affected by record-breaking floods that have killed more than 1,160 people since mid-June. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Pakistan’s flooding, caused by weeks of unprecedented monsoon rains, were a signal to the world to
Trees and green spaces tend to make us feel happier. Who doesn’t enjoy walking or jogging in the park surrounded by lush greenery or looking out of a window at colorful shrubs and plants? We feel less stressed and more restored, thus improving our health. However, Bangkok residents don’t experience nature’s healing properties as much
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is gearing up to cope with overflows from the Chao Phraya River, as a result of high tides which may flood low-lying residential areas in the capital, from the end of this month and into early August. Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt said today (Wednesday) that Bangkok is largely protected by
When walking along a street in Bangkok, many may have witnessed trash collection underway and some might wonder whether separation and sorting of waste really works. The sight of unsorted trash piled up and collectors putting everything together in a large compartment at the back of the garbage truck might discourage some from self-sorting their
From ocean depths to mountain peaks, humans have littered the planet with tiny shards of plastic. We have even absorbed these microplastics into our bodies — with uncertain implications. Images of plastic pollution have become familiar: a turtle suffocated by a shopping bag, water bottles washed up on beaches, or the monstrous “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” of
Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt is confident that the city’s administration will exceed its ambitious target to plant one million trees in Bangkok within four years and that Sundays may be declared tree planting day for the capital. Today (Sunday) the governor joined Nong Khaem district officials and residents, led by the district chief, in the
RED LODGE, Mont. (AP) — More than 10,000 visitors were ordered out of Yellowstone as unprecedented flooding tore through the northern half of the nation’s oldest national park, washing out bridges and roads and sweeping an employee bunkhouse miles downstream, officials said Tuesday. Remarkably, no one was reported injured or killed. The only visitors left
Microscopic air pollution caused mostly by burning fossil fuels shortens lives worldwide by more than two years, researchers reported Tuesday. Across South Asia, the average person would live five years longer if levels of fine particulate matter met World Health Organization standards, according to a report from the University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute. In the
A 1.5 metre, 60kg bottlenose dolphin, which washed ashore on Khao Lak beach, in Thailand’s southern province of Phang-nga yesterday (Friday), has been rescued and taken to the Phuket Marine Biological Centre to recover. Tourists and hotel staff found the dolphin and tried to return it to the sea three times, but without success, as
Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in May were 50 percent higher than during the pre-industrial era, reaching levels not seen on Earth for about four million years, the main US climate agency said on Friday. Global warming caused by humans, particularly through the production of electricity using fossil fuels, transport, the production of
Conservationists in Kenya have been extracting oocytes from the last two female northern white rhinos on the planet- in an attempt to save the species from extinction using IVF. Neither female is able to carry a pregnancy, and now the older rhino, aged nearly 33, has become too old for successful extraction, leaving all hopes
Officials from Thailand’s Marine and Coastal Resources Department were yesterday sent to Bang Saen beach, in the eastern province of Chon Buri, to investigate the source of oil which has washed ashore. The oil was found along two kilometers of the beach, with more slicks seen on the surface of the sea. Witnesses said they
