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  • OPINION

    Climate change urgency grows

    Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 01/07/2019

    » Climate change is global in nature but it is having an especially severe impact on Asia. Chennai, one of India's largest cities, has run out of water as the summer heat intensifies. With monsoon rains below average, four lakes in the city of 4.7 million have dried up. Residents don't have enough water to drink, bathe or wash clothes, malls have closed their washrooms and restaurants are not open for customers.

  • BUSINESS

    Markets meant to limit climate change

    Business, Published on 08/02/2023

    » Attempts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions are not restricted to environmental and technological approaches, as economic instruments are meant to support campaigns against global warming.

  • OPINION

    The varieties of climate-driven medical risk

    Oped, Published on 04/08/2022

    » When natural disasters force people to pack a bag and flee to safety, important items are often forgotten. Following California's 2007 wildfire season, estimates were that for every household at least one person left behind prescription medication during evacuation. Likewise, when Hurricane Harvey threatened to flood my own mother's Texas home in 2017, she forgot to grab her medication in her rush to escape the storm's path -- even though she was normally meticulous when packing for a trip.

  • WORLD

    Cactus feels the heat of climate change

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 08/05/2022

    » The hardy cactus -- fond of heat and aridity, adapted to rough soils -- might not seem like the picture of a climate change victim.

  • LIFE

    A deal to save the planet

    Life, Sawarin Suwichakornpong, Published on 04/09/2020

    » The rising temperature of Earth's climate is wreaking havoc on our ecosystems by generating extreme changes in the weather, unresolved seasonal changes, and ecological damage. While there is ample evidence to suggest climate change took place even in prehistoric times, scientists have observed that the rate and degree of change since the mid-20th century has been accelerating, concluding that human activity has been the major driving force underlying this drastic transformation.

  • OPINION

    A just post-pandemic transition

    Oped, Published on 24/07/2020

    » It will take time for Covid-19's economic consequences to come into full view. But some of the costs are already becoming apparent, beginning with the devastation the crisis will wreak on the global workforce. With climate change also threatening to hurt the world's most vulnerable workers, the need for a holistic crisis response that emphasises both justice and sustainability could not be greater.

  • THAILAND

    Peters upbeat about kingdom's 'progress'

    News, Kornchanok Raksaseri, Published on 14/08/2019

    » Winston Peters, New Zealand's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs broke into a smile when asked about his impressions of the 52nd Asean Foreign Ministers' Meeting (AMM) and other Related Meetings held in Bangkok from July 29-Aug 3.

  • LIFE

    A chilling Antarctic thriller

    Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 28/08/2020

    » When communication with the outside world suddenly stops, everything starts to fall apart for a small team of scientists trapped inside a station in Antarctica where they are carrying out research to tackle climate change. However, this isolated space soon becomes hellish as the multinational research group start dying one by one.

  • BUSINESS

    Clearing the air

    Asia focus, Published on 03/08/2020

    » The months-long Covid-19 pandemic has taken a terrible toll on economies and the wellbeing of people worldwide, but it's certainly not the only threat humanity faces.

  • BUSINESS

    Two-way street

    Asia focus, Published on 01/06/2020

    » The European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) have vowed to strengthen their cooperation at a time when the world is facing unprecedented health and economic crisis caused by coronavirus outbreak.

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