Air pollution

  • Bangkok NewsBangkok smog: Police on the lookout for dirty exhaust from vehicles
    ThaigerPublished: 17:27, 16 January 2019
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    Bangkok smog: Police on the lookout for dirty exhaust from vehicles

    by Khanathit Srihirundaj It’s either a knee-jerk reaction, media stunt or something we hope to see a lot more of. Checking vehicles with plumes of dirty smoke coming out of their exhaust. To help curb fine-particle dust pollution in Bangkok, traffic police have increased the number of checkpoints where they will check vehicles spewing black exhaust smoke. The number of…

  • Bangkok NewsWorld Health Organisation: More people killed by air pollution than by AIDS, malaria
    ThaigerPublished: 08:33, 15 January 2019
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    World Health Organisation: More people killed by air pollution than by AIDS, malaria

    by Pratch Rujivanarom Authorities are launching all-out efforts to battle persistent smog in Bangkok, as dust particles continued to blanket the capital. Meanwhile a WHO (World Health Organisation) report says air pollution kills more people than AIDS and malaria combined. Authorities have been including cleaning roads more often, spraying water into the sky, trying to produce artificial rain and enforcing…

  • Bangkok News
    ThaigerPublished: 17:04, 14 January 2019
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    Face mask fashion as Bangkok batters poor air quality and smog

    by Kunlaphun Siripimamporn. PHOTOS: The Nation Thick morning winter fog and some heavy smog has forced many Bangkokians into wearing facemasks, even the cheap ones that will nothing to protect them from the fine particulate matter mixed into the air. People wearing masks became a common sight in inner city areas today. The pollution continued to remain at harmful levels…

  • Bangkok NewsWater cannons brought out to add humidity as authorities struggle with BKK smog
    ThaigerPublished: 08:33, 24 December 2018
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    Water cannons brought out to add humidity as authorities struggle with BKK smog

    Bangkokians have at least another day to inhale unhealthy levels of air pollution after Sunday, the fourth consecutive day the city has been shrouded in smog. On Sunday morning the measure of particulate matter in Tambon Pak Nam in Muang Samut Prakan was 93 micrograms per cubic metres, approaching what the WHO describes as ‘unhealthy’. The Nation reported that Samut…

  • Bangkok NewsThailand’s air quality measurement standards raise concerns
    ThaigerPublished: 08:42, 22 September 2018
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    Thailand’s air quality measurement standards raise concerns

    by Chularat Saengpassa From next month, the Pollution Control Department (PCD) will set PM2.5 particles as an indicator of Thailand’s air quality, but the move does not ease the concerns of people in the know. “I must tell you that the PCD intend to use the ‘24-hour mean’ as the indicator and that may be misleading,” said Tara Buakamsri, the…