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Adapting cities to climate change
News, Published on 04/12/2024
» Relentless floods. Searing Heat. Vanishing coastlines. Thailand's cities are under siege from climate risks. Without urgent intervention, the worst is yet to come.
Treaty could end our plastic crisis
Oped, Published on 29/11/2024
» On Nov 13, a coalition of 160 civil society organisations in Thailand made a historic plea, submitting a joint statement urging the Thai government to champion a strong Global Plastics Treaty at the upcoming fifth and final negotiations in Busan, South Korea. This treaty, initiated in 2022, aims to establish a legally binding global framework to address plastic pollution across its entire life cycle.
Rethinking national prosperity through institutions
News, Published on 13/11/2024
» Each autumn, a telephone call from Stockholm launches one or a few scholars to international fame with the bestowal of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences -- a process that Irving Wallace dramatised in his 1962 potboiler The Prize.
Bridging the needs of communities
News, Published on 30/10/2024
» The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Conference of Parties (COP) in Cali, Colombia, COP16, provides an opportunity to move closer to achieving the world's biodiversity conservation goals. From Oct 21 to this Friday, this year's CBD COP follows both the UN Climate Change and Desertification COPs as the last in a triad of "super" COP events taking place in close succession. It follows from the watershed CBD COP15, where the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework was adopted.
Group exhibition explores climate chaos
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 11/10/2024
» 333 Gallery in Bangkok's Warehouse 30 is hosting "Sinking And The Paradox Of Staying Afloat", a group exhibition featuring the works of six prominent Southeast Asian artists, until Nov 3. Through a variety of media, including video, mixed media, paintings, sculptures and labour-intensive installations, the exhibition addresses the complexities of environmental degradation and the urgent need for climate action.
Explore Phetchaburi with Siam Society
Life, Published on 30/09/2024
» The Siamese Heritage Trust at Siam Society is holding a study trip to delve into the ecological systems of Phetchaburi from Nov 2-3.
Saving the planet from the plastic menace
News, Published on 16/09/2024
» There is no denying that plastics have delivered tremendous benefits over the past century. But as we now know, this progress has come at great cost.
Legends save lives
Life, Published on 26/08/2024
» One sunny morning in late 2004, the Moken people of the Surin Islands in the Andaman Sea witnessed an alarming phenomenon -- the seawaters suddenly receded even as the placid weather remained unchanged. For Moken elders, this was a harbinger of the Laboon, the furious god of the waves who is said to wreak devastation once every two generations. The entire community evacuated to higher ground.
Kickstarting farms
Oped, Postbag, Published on 17/08/2024
» Re: "Act to defuse depopulation timebomb", (Opinion, Aug 14).
Minister stifles info on blackchin tilapia
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 07/08/2024
» Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Thamanat Prompow has cautioned the Department of Fisheries not to release further information about the controversial blackchin tilapia fish issue, saying it has become a legal matter under court consideration.