Environment and natural resources

Indonesia’s forest fires causing air pollution in southern Thailand

Residents in Thailand’s southern provinces of Songkhla and Satun are being warned to protect their health by wearing face masks or staying indoors as the two provinces are blanketed with smoke from forest fires on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island.Keep reading ...

China’s ‘Belt and Road’ risks Paris climate goals

Carbon-heavy development in countries part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative could render the Paris climate goals unreachable, according to a new analysis on the gargantuan global infrastructure project released Monday. The massive network of ports, railways, roads and industrial parks spanning Asia, Africa, the ...

The death of Southeast Asia’s dugongs

The plight of the dugong has been making headlines after two baby dugongs which were found alive and washed ashore in Krabi and Trang provinces, in Thailand, died recently. The increased awareness has brought Hollywood, actor, Leonardo DiCaprio to post the story on his social ...

TDRI wants waste on agenda

Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI) has urged the government to include waste management as part of the national agenda and proposed the government ban foam usage and make consumers pay for plastic shopping bags.Keep reading ...

Phusadee Arunmas

BMA likely to delay new rubbish collection fee

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is likely to postpone the new garbage collection fee for another year, in a bid perceived as populist appeasement.The Bangkok Council on Wednesday gave initial approval to a proposal tabled by Bangkok governor Aswin Kwanmuang asking that the new fee ...

Supoj Wancharoen

Greenpeace proposes widespread collection fee to drive push against disposables

Greenpeace has proposed an indiscriminately-implemented collection fee as a means to eradicate single-use plastic bags and containers from disposal, as well as to establish an independent fund for rehabilitation of Thailand’s seas.The popular environmental group’s proposal comes on the heels of the deaths of two ...

The Nation Reporter

Land grabbers implicated in peat swamp blazes

The Crime Suppression Division (CSD) has launched an investigation into the burning of peat swamps in Nakhon Si Thammarat’s Chalerm Prakiat district with a land acquisition motive suspected to be behind the blazes.Keep reading ...

Bangkok Post Reporter

Something Is Very Wrong on the Mekong River

The Mekong is reeling from the combined onslaught of climate change, sand-mining, and incessant damming of the river, which combined to help cause the worst drought recorded in over 100 years in July.Keep reading ...

RID addresses drought in Chao Phraya River basin

The Royal Irrigation Department (RID) has announced a plan to provide water for consumption for communities in the Chao Phraya River basin while affirming that the amount of water for agricultural activities in the area will be sufficient throughout the rainy season.Keep watching ...

Measures needed for sea tragedy to lead to plastic clean-up

The sea tragedy of Marium, the beloved orphaned female baby dugong of Thailand that died from eating plastic, reveals the awkward truth about the serious threat of ocean debris.The orphaned dugong was found by marine biologists in April in southern Thailand.She became an internet star ...

Ornvipa Rumroy

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