Air pollution

  • Bangkok News
    ThaigerPublished: 12:34, 22 December 2018
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    Authorities struggle to find solutions for the BKK smog

    PHOTO: The Nation “Normal cheap face masks are useless to protect people from air pollution.” Bangkok is suffering some severe air pollution as authorities struggle to find a way to reduce the dangerous levels of particulate matter floating around the city. A lack of wind is allowing the pollution, mostly from vehicle emissions and local industry, to hang around the…

  • Bangkok News
    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…