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Researchers eye e-waste mountains
News, Post Reporters, Published on 17/10/2022
» The National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT) will promote a nationwide zero electronic-waste scheme to regulate the sector and reduce the impact on the environment.
Twilight of the Tigris: Iraq's mighty river drying up
AFP, Published on 20/09/2022
» BAGHDAD - It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilisation itself.
Pollution rule needs rework
Oped, Editorial, Published on 30/08/2022
» Back in 1992, the government classified 18 areas with severe pollution problems as Pollution Control Areas, in which additional environmental oversights -- such as tougher air and wastewater emission standards -- would be applied.
Groups kick off pollutant database bid
News, Post Reporters, Published on 05/07/2022
» A civil society network yesterday kicked off a campaign calling for the enactment of a law to create a database management system to help monitor the release and transfer of chemicals or pollutants in the kingdom.
Unity needed to fight 'waste colonialism'
News, Published on 29/06/2022
» In many areas countrywide, imported waste releases dangerous toxic chemicals, including Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) or "forever chemicals" -- so called because of their ability to remain in an environment and organisms for a long time.
How to avoid EEC waste 'time bomb'
Oped, Published on 22/06/2022
» Despite the government's bravado about the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) being the country's economic powerhouse, one important question still gets an elusive answer: Has the EEC fulfilled its promise of protecting the environment?
Clean-up action needed
Oped, Editorial, Published on 11/06/2022
» Thailand joined the international community in marking World Environment Day Sunday with not-so-good news. The country's 2022 environment performance index (EPI), prepared by a Yale University research team, slipped 30 notches from last year's 78th ranking to 108th.
Tobacco's environmental threat
Oped, Published on 31/05/2022
» Tobacco kills our environment, not just people. Tobacco causes over 8 million deaths every year globally and 81,000 in Thailand. Simultaneously, each year, tobacco destroys a vast landmass roughly the size of 44,000 Suan Luang Rama IX parks, the largest green park in Bangkok, causes massive deforestation and pollutes our environment.
The next step in evolution
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 27/05/2022
» The maestro is teasing us, with his favourite instrument: the scalpel. Mechanical, electrified scalpels that split open the flesh -- often, the belly -- like a bulging purse being unzipped. This time, what comes out of the belly is a menagerie of grotesque organs -- organs with neither names nor functions, grown inside the body primed for involuntary evolution.
Pollution behind 1 in 6 global deaths in 2019: study
AFP, Published on 18/05/2022
» PARIS: Pollution caused some 9 million people to die prematurely in 2019, according to a new global report published Wednesday, with experts raising alarm over increasing deaths from breathing outside air and the "horrifying" toll of lead poisoning.