Southeast Asia faces more severe effects of climate change than the rest of the world, McKinsey says

Southeast Asia could potentially face more severe consequences of climate change than other parts of the world, according to the business and economic research arm of consulting firm McKinsey.The research outlines the scope of potential impact climate change may have on Southeast Asian nations and ...

Recovery after Covid-19: Let's make it green

The world is caught in an unprecedented crisis. The Covid-19 pandemic has swept across our planet, causing enormous human tragedy and economic losses. The focus is now on fighting the pandemic and its immediate consequences. The good news is that Thailand seems to have managed ...

La Nina may ease drought severity

Thailand may not encounter a severe drought this year as earlier expected, thanks to the influence of the La Nina phenomenon, but careful water usage is still needed especially among rice farmers who have been told to wait for the right time to start farming.“The ...

Apinya Wipatayotin

The fight to save Bangkok from sinking into watery depths

When landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom and her landscape design studio, Landprocess, created a park in central Bangkok in 2017, it was no ordinary park.It was a green basin to help the city soak up excess water — up to 4.5 million litres — by funnelling ...

Meet Thailand's secret weapon in climate change battle

Rising sea levels, unchecked development, groundwater extraction, and rapid urban population growth has left millions vulnerable to natural disasters — scientists warn the city itself may not survive the century.New analysis by the Nestpick 2050 Climate Change City Index says the Thai capital could be ...

Learning to live with the weather

Water management innovations and the resilience of local people have helped turn a flood-prone community in Rangsit’s Nong Sua district of Pathum Thani into a prototype multi-purpose water catchment area.However, severe drought presents a new challenge.Nine years ago, when the central region of Thailand was ...

Thana Boonlert

Seeds of hope

Here is a familiar scenario: A child is admonished by a parent for not finishing a meal and reminded of the millions of people around the world who are starving. Maybe you have been that parent — or were once that child.For the record, the ...

Sunny Verghese

Revised forecast puts Bangkok underwater by 2050

Rising seas could affect three times more people by 2050 than previously thought, according to new research, threatening to all but erase some of the world’s great coastal cities including Bangkok.The authors of a paper published this week developed a more accurate way of calculating ...

Half the World’s Coral Reefs Already Have Been Killed by Climate Change

The oceans have long been the biggest buffer for humankind’s dangerous greenhouse-gas emissions. Around a quarter of all the carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere since the 1980s—from driving cars, running factories and churning out electricity with fossil fuels—has ended up sunk into the waters. ...

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 ...

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