The Thai government has ordered a crackdown on farmers flouting a ban on crop burning, as pollution in Bangkok spiked on Friday a week after toxic air forced hundreds of schools to close.

The Pakanyo are just a small part of a cluster of factors that show how deeply fire is ingrained in local practices and why Thailand’s air pollution issue is so intractable. During the haze ...

Flying through Bangkok's cloudless blue skies, a small aircraft sprays a white mist over a thick haze of pea soup smog below. This is Thailand's desperate, unproven attempt at reducing the ...

Thailand has resorted to desperate measures to combat pollution — testing a kind of "cloud seeding" after air pollution in the capital reached eight times the daily maximum average recommended ...

The pollution in the dry season in Thailand has long been a problem. But recently, it's reached dangerous and deeply worrying levels. Bangkok was the fourth most polluted city in the world this month.

By Carolyn Cowan Marine biologists diving in the Gulf of Thailand were thrilled in 2023 to rediscover several colonies of a rare type of ocean sponge once thought to be extinct in the wild. But their ...