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Indonesia revives $10.5bn Jakarta sea wall plan
Published on 10/01/2024
» JAKARTA - Indonesia is reviving plans to construct a giant sea wall in the latest of a series of measures to prevent its capital city Jakarta from sinking at a faster rate.
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'Like hell': India's burning coalfields
AFP, Published on 14/07/2023
» DHANBAD (INDIA) - Deadly fires have raged for a century in mines in India's Jharkhand state, where Savitri Mahto is one of 100,000 people risking their lives shovelling coal to supply insatiable demand.
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Bangkok is still sinking, and fast!
News, Pratch Rujivanarom, Published on 06/02/2023
» Getting Bangkok ready for the consequences of climate change is crucial for saving this megacity from being submerged under rising sea levels, climate experts say.
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Subsidence spurs checks on India's hydro push
News, Published on 28/01/2023
» Posters urging "NTPC Go Back" have appeared in Joshimath, a subsiding Indian Himalayan town where roads are cracking and houses crumbling -- a crisis locals blame largely on a hydropower project led by India's biggest electricity producer NTPC.
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Living in fear of the rain
Oped, Editorial, Published on 03/09/2022
» A rare Arcus cloud that shrouded Bangkok and nearby provinces earlier this week -- and went viral on social media as people uploaded photos of it -- has rekindled fears of extreme weather events as a result of climate change.
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Uphill battle for Chadchart
Oped, Editorial, Published on 24/05/2022
» Bangkok voters have been known to deliver last-minute electoral shocks, but the result of Sunday's gubernatorial election was not a surprise to anyone. As predicted by pundits and opinion polls, Chadchart Sittipunt, who once served as transport minister under the ousted Pheu Thai administration, won with a comfortable margin.
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Illegal landfills hard to suppress, crackdown shows
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 07/02/2022
» The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) has launched an operation to shut down illegal landfills nationwide.
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Families flee as 25 houses tumble into canal
Sutthiwit Chayutworakan, Published on 21/01/2022
» SAMUT PRAKAN: Families fled their homes as 25 houses collapsed into a canal as the bank crumbled away in Bang Phli district on Thursday night. No casualties were reported.
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Bangkok urged to go green
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 17/12/2021
» Surrounded by high-rises, large trees offer shade to urban residents, protecting them from all kinds of pollution. Nevertheless, the expansion of green space in Bangkok remains a tough nut to crack now that vacant land is harder to come by. But an environmental expert believes building pocket parks around corners and turns can help increase green cover and make the city more sustainable.
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IEAT looks to underground water stores
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 10/11/2021
» The Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT) will pilot underground Plastic Rainwater Storage Structures (PRSS) in a move to help prevent flooding and water scarcity on industrial estates, with Japanese cooperation.
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