Environment

The government issued an alert for 15 provinces and 29 districts to prepare for forest runoff and landslides from October 11-13, 2026. Ms. Lalida Periswivathan, Deputy Spokesperson of the Prime…

Yesterday afternoon, over twenty otters were observed swimming and fishing in the Bangkok Noi Canal in Nonthaburi province, a sight unprecedented for long-term residents. The unusual gathering, split into two…

Severe flooding in Prachin Buri’s Ban Sang district has rendered all roads impassable, necessitating the use of trains to deliver essential supplies. The district chief reported that all nine sub-districts…

Thailand’s Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation has initiated flood relief registration across 65 provinces and all Bangkok districts, receiving over 700,000 applications by October 3. Eligible residents in officially…

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s Veterinary Public Health Office yesterday, September 29, began transporting animals from flood-affected districts like Khan Na Yao and Bang Kapi to a dedicated center. This facility…

Two accomplished Thai female jet ski athletes, Arparn Theeraphat Phani and Supalak Nilanpraphan, are actively volunteering their skills to assist flood victims. The Jet Ski Association of Thailand, with support…

Search teams in Thailand’s Kanchanaburi province successfully recovered the bodies of a mother and her young daughter yesterday. The two victims were tragically swept away on September 27 when floodwaters…

Amidst persistent waist-deep flooding in Bangkok’s Bang Kapi district today, September 29, vendors transformed the submerged Lat Phrao Road into an impromptu floating market. Displaced from their usual stalls, sellers…

Bangkok’s governor expanded the flood disaster zone to encompass all 50 districts of the capital on September 25, 2026, a significant escalation from the initial three. This widespread declaration by…

Nakhon Ratchasima officials are addressing critically low water levels across the province, with major reservoirs holding only 37% capacity as of September 21. To bolster supplies during the rainy season…

A former assistant to the head of Khao Yai National Park, Saroj Praphan, has disputed a fine issued after a video showed his sedan driving too close to two wild…

A 65-year-old man, Wanna Sae Li, died in Chon Buri on Saturday, September 19, after entering a burrow to rescue newborn puppies threatened by rising floodwaters. Rescuers discovered him deceased…

Online users yesterday criticized a driver in Khao Yai National Park for dangerously speeding past a mother and calf elephant crossing the road. The startled calf nearly collided with its…

On September 11th in Rayong, Thailand, a four-year-old wild elephant was rescued from a septic pit by a backhoe after falling in at Ban Khao Ngo. Wildlife rangers and community…

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has established rules to protect heritage trees, requiring permission to cut, prune, or transplant registered specimens. In a meeting held on August 31, officials defined heritage-tree criteria—based on age, health, rarity or significance, and connections to history or culture—and outlined a two-phase plan: building a Tree Inventory and later publishing a Heritage Tree List. Once listed, pruning or removal would require approval, and a Green Space Policy Driving Committee was proposed to steer strategies, monitor progress, and support the city’s…

The Bangkok Mass Transit Authority is preparing to review and sign a 7-year contract for the rental of 1,520 clean energy (EV) air-conditioned public buses. The first batch of 500 buses is expected to be delivered by March 2027, with the full delivery by May 2027. The project aims to transition to electric buses, reducing fuel costs and clearing the BMTA’s accumulated debt of over 200 billion baht. The Cabinet has approved a total investment budget of 15,355.60 million baht for the project.

Thai customs authorities have confiscated 284 tonnes of electronic waste at Laem Chabang Port, which had been falsely claimed to contain scrap metal from Haiti. The discovery was made following a tip-off from the Basel Action Network, and authorities expect to find more illegal electronic waste in the remaining 21 containers. Thailand will be sending the entire shipment back to the United States, the country of origin, under the terms of the Basel Convention, which it ratified in 2023.

Phuket’s waste management crisis is highlighted, with over 1. 2 million tonnes of accumulated waste and 1,200 tonnes generated daily.

Ayutthaya’s Bang Ban District Bears the Brunt to Shield Bangkok from Floods As heavy monsoon rains continue to sweep across Thailand, the low-lying Bang Ban district in Ayutthaya Province once again finds itself inundated — a familiar sacrifice made to spare Bangkok from the worst of seasonal flooding. For nearly a decade, Bang Ban has […]

KRABI Maya Bay’s ongoing ecological recovery reached a new milestone on July 3, 2025, when researchers recorded 158 blacktip reef sharks in a single survey the highest count ever documented in one day in the area. The discovery was part of the “Shark Watch Project” conducted by the Marine National Park Study and Research Center […]