climate change

  • World NewsLast five years “Hottest on record” – UN Climate Summit
    ThaigerMonday, September 23, 2019
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    Last five years “Hottest on record” – UN Climate Summit

    PHOTO: Greenpeace USA “Average global temperature between 2015-2019 is on track to be the hottest of any five-year period on record, according to the report compiled by the World Meteorological Organisation.” A damning new UN report published yesterday says the world is falling badly behind in the race to avert “climate disaster” because of runaway warming, with the five-year period…

  • Environment NewsOur oceans are key to fighting climate change
    ThaigerFriday, September 20, 2019
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    Our oceans are key to fighting climate change

    by Amélie Bottollier-Depois and Marlowe Hood “There are at least three types of actions humans can take to help repair the damage and ensure that oceans don’t turn from friend to foe.” Humanity must heal oceans made sick by climate change and pollution to protect marine life and to save itself, experts warned days before the release of a major…

  • Northern Thailand News“Worst drought in living memory”, Thai farmers in the north
    ThaigerSaturday, July 20, 2019
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    “Worst drought in living memory”, Thai farmers in the north

    Parts of Thailand are facing their worst drought in 50 years. Farmers in some parts of the north and north east say that the situation is the “worst in living memory”, as reported in Sanook. Meanwhile, The Meteorological Department says Thailand will experience the worst drought in at least a decade, with average precipitation across large regions of the country falling…

  • World NewsDengue alert declared in The Philippines
    ThaigerTuesday, July 16, 2019
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    Dengue alert declared in The Philippines

    PHOTO: Philippine Star Dengue cases have doubled in Thailand this year. And in The Philippines a similar situation is unfolding. Health authorities in The Philippines are declaring a national dengue alert after a spike in cases leaving more than 450 people dead since the start of 2019. Around 100,000 dengue cases were reported across The Philippines in the first six…

  • Phuket NewsLots of green seaweed washed up on Patong Beach
    Kritsada MueanhawongThursday, January 10, 2019
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    Lots of green seaweed washed up on Patong Beach

    Patong Municipality public works staff have been clean up piles of green seaweed on Patong Beach today. This morning there was a line of green seaweed along 500 metres along the popular beach. Arnon Poomduang, a jet-ski operator says, “This is a normal and happens every year around this time. This year it is more than in the past years.…