Environment and natural resources
Climate change
Push for Thai climate fund
and the empowerment of local people to boost climate resilience, when they meet at a United Nations sponsored conference in Bangkok.Civil society organisations, activists and people affected by the adverse impact of climate change from across Thailand yesterday gathered at Chulalongkorn University to talk about ...
Pratch Rujivanarom
Climate taking heavy toll
Global mass extinction from extreme climate change is imminent and we are certainly not ready for it, warn scientists. The first half of this year has been a turbulent one, with many extreme, unusual and unpredictable climate disasters, which cost more than US$30 billion (Bt979 ...
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Eroded Pattaya Beach gets reconstructive surgery
Pattaya Beach is undergoing reconstruction to return the severely eroded beach to its former beauty and attract more tourists.More than 360,000 cubic metres of sand are currently being dredged from the sea bottom and will be added to Pattaya Beach, in a Marine Department project ...
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Thailand hosts ASEAN seminar on climate change
Thailand is hosting an ASEAN seminar to exchange information and technology needed to address climate change. The seminar featured experts on weather modification and meteorology from China, South Korea, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar and the World Meteorological Organization. Keep reading ...
Benjamin Rujopakarn
Southeast Asian forest loss much greater than expected, with negative implications for climate
Researchers using satellite imaging have found much greater than expected deforestation since 2000 in the highlands of Southeast Asia, a critically important world ecosystem. The findings are important because they raise questions about key assumptions made in projections of global climate change as well as ...
John Sullivan
Climate change for all to see at BACC
The Bangkok Art and Culture Centre opens an exhibition of disturbing photographic proof.A lone polar bear scrabbles across a melting iceberg. Beijing lovers wear masks to shield their lungs from polluted air. A tiny fish is trapped inside a floating plastic bag off Thailand’s Koh ...
Phatarawadee Phataranawik
Migrants face changing climate
The arrival of May once reminded Lin Na that the first rain of the year was on its way. The ground in her small village of Prey Veng province in southern Cambodia would start to soften, dampened by rainfall. This time each year, she would ...
Paritta Wangkiat
Germany grants Bt690m, will work with Thailand on climate-change projects
Germany has granted Bt690 million for a four-year climate change programme intended to help Thailand achieve its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to climate change.The German government together with the Thai government celebrated the launch of the Thai-German Climate Programme last Monday ...
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New Climate Change Fears, Old Mekong Problems
The Mekong River, one of the world’s longest and resource-rich rivers, deserves international attention and recognition as a frontier with governments and developers — who see the river an industrial production tool — on one side and the people who live along its vast waterways ...
Luke Hunt