Browsing: Air pollution

National parks have resorted to door-to-door campaigns in the latest effort to tackle a longstanding cause of Thailand’s seasonal air pollution crisis – agricultural fires. “Locals tend to think that…

Hotels rooms in Chiang Mai are currently about 70% booked, many of them by foreign tourists, despite the worsening PM2.5 problem, according to Patsin Sawetrat, director of the Tourism Authority…

Chiang Mai is again the city with the worst air pollution in the world today. The provincial administration urges the public and private sectors to allow their…

Chiang Mai is ranked as the city with the third highest level of PM2.5 dust in the air today, measured at 128.2µg/m³, and an air quality index of 188 on…

A group of prominent Arizona Republicans sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Tuesday over new air pollution regulations that they claim will hurt the economy. The Republican leaders of the state’s House and Senate joined with the state Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the suit, alleging the new standards for fine air pollutants known…