Pollution and waste
Air pollution
University promotes better masks to combat air pollution scourge
Chiang Mai University’s Faculty of Medicine yesterday (April, 2) handed out a more protective type of face mask, the N95, to help its staff cope with serious air pollution. The distribution of 6,000 N95 masks was aimed at raising public awareness of the problem and ...
The Nation Reporter
PM10 pollution still rising despite woodland-fire ban
A governor’s directive to bar entry to reserve forest lands and parks to reduce hazardous pollution in the North has so far failed to reverse the amount of PM10 particulates in Mae Hong Song.Keep reading ...
The Nation Reporter
Fires push Mae Hong Son pollution to 150mg
Fire-fighters and volunteers in Mae Hong Son are battling brush fires along highways and on mountains day and night despite woodlands being officially sealed off. The fires have for almost five consecutive days smothered the northern province in a haze of small-particle dust that is ...
Tossapon Boonpat
Chiang Rai closes off forests as burning continues despite restrictions
Chiang Rai has ordered its forests conditionally closed off for seven days and placed authorities on 24 hour alert after man-made fires continued to occur despite a 60 day order against such activities, in place until April 20.Keep reading ...
Itiporn Lakarnchua
City pollution at 'national disaster' level
Bangkok must upgrade its ultra-fine dust pollution problem to “national disaster” level in order to strengthen protections against its far-reaching health impacts, ranging from heart and brain disorders to cancer.Keep reading ...
Apinya Wipatayotin
‘Authorities have misled people’ about health peril of air pollution
A medical specialist has brought home the human cost of the air-pollution problem plaguing Thailand, stating on March, 22 2018 that the mortality rate increased by 0.3 per cent for every 10 micrograms of small dust particles measuring 10 microns (PM10) in the air.Keep reading ...
Patinya Srisupamart
Chiang Mai sprays water to increase air humidity to reduce air pollution
Chiang Mai sprayed water to increase air humidity to reduce air pollution after the PM10 values had been found to exceed the safety standard level. Many sectors in Chiang Mai jointly constructed firebreaks to reduce the risk of forest fires and increase moisture in the air ...
Supawadee Wangsri
Air quality again hits unsafe levels
Poor air quality is again a concern after the Pollution Control Department detected amounts of micro-fine dust exceeding safe limits at all five air quality monitoring stations on Monday.The department said the average value of so-called particulate matter, or PM 2.5 over the past 24 ...
Citizens fault officials over smog warnings
The shortage of PM2.5 monitoring stations blamed for lack of pollution alerts. The authorities have failed to provide accurate and up-to-date air pollution warnings to the people in the midst of the intensifying Northern smog problem, Chiang Mai citizens have complained. The administrator of the ...
Air pollution eases in North, but increases in Bangkok
Smog has receded in the North, but the level of particulate matter smaller than 2.5 microns (PM2.5) has increased in the Bangkok metropolitan area, where it is lingering around the safe limit of 50 micrograms per cubic metre of air.The measurement of PM2.5 levels as ...