Environmental news from Thailand — climate, air quality, conservation and sustainability, in English from Thai PBS World.
Thailand’s Pollution Control Department (PCD) has scheduled a meeting with related agencies this afternoon (Monday) to discuss the air quality in Bangkok and its suburbs as the amount of PM2.5 particulate exceeded standard levels in 15 areas this morning. The department’s director-general, Mr. Pralong Damrongthai, said that the meeting will discuss additional measures to
Australian authorities began assessing the damage on Sunday from heatwave-spurred bushfires that swept through two states a day earlier, as cooler conditions provided a temporary respite from blazes that have scarred the country’s east coast for weeks. Light rain and cooler temperatures in the southeast of the country were a welcome change from the searing
Late Friday night or early this morning, thieves stole most of the eggs from the nest of a rare leatherback turtle, which had come ashore in Khao Lampi-Hat Thai Muang national park in Thailand’s southern coastal province of Phang-nga to lay. Thon Thamrongnawasawat, a well-known marine scientist and chair of a working committee on rare
Thousands of Australians forced from their homes by rampaging bushfires now find themselves stuck in makeshift camps, fearful for the future and turned refugees in their own country. On golf courses, cricket ovals and showgrounds — anywhere with a minimal amount of combustible tree cover — Australians are sheltering from a climate-fuelled disaster. At the
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The death toll from floods in Indonesia’s capital rose to 43 of Friday as rescuers found more bodies amid receding floodwaters, disaster officials said. Monsoon rains and rising rivers submerged at least 182 neighborhoods in greater Jakarta and caused landslides in the Bogor and Depok districts on the city’s outskirts,
Bamboo cups, plates and trays, offered on a trial basis to visitors to Sri Nan national park in Thailand’s northern province of Nan as an alternative to plastics, have sold well and officials are considering increasing production. The Sri Nan national park chief Mr. Bandit Chimchart said that the eco-friendly food containers are made from
A plateful of plastic Visualising the amount of microplastic we eat Microscopic pieces of plastic have been discovered in the most remote locations, from the depths of the ocean to Arctic ice. Another place that plastic is appearing is inside our bodies. We’re breathing microplastic, eating it and drinking plastic-infused water every day. Plastic
MEXICO CITY (AP) — For centuries, Mexico City residents brought warm tortillas home in reusable cloths or woven straw baskets, and toted others foods in conical rolls of paper, “ayate” mesh or net bags, or even string bundles. People in Mexico’s massive capital city may have to return to those old ways starting Wednesday, when
Small-scale fishermen in Thailand’s southern province of Chumphon are complaining that Blackchin tilapia are now thriving in the coastal waters and canals connected to the sea, to the extent that every time they cast their nets, they will only catch the non-indigenous species and rarely any other. They said that, although Blackchin tilapia were detected
The Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives plans to spend 450 million baht of its annual budget on dealing with the spread in watercourses of Blackchin tilapia, a non-indigenous species of fish from Africa, a significant problem which is expected to be resolved within four years, according to Agriculture Minister Thammanat Prompao. Thammanat said today that
The Pollution Control Department (PCD) is gauging the public’s opinion on the department’s plan to require diesel-engine vehicles, which are over 20 years old, to have their engines tested twice a year, instead of just once, as part of the effort to reduce PM2.5 pollution. Preeyaporn Suwanaged, director-general of the PCD, said that automobiles account
Several areas in the Hat Noppharat Thara-Mu Ko Phi Phi National Park will be closed to tourists from June 30, after it was discovered that almost all the coral and sea anemone have bleached. Yutthapong Dumsrisuk, chief of the national park, said that devastating bleaching has been reported in Loh Ba Kao Bay, Viking Cave
