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PAN 12 February 2018 | Kristin Schafer

What are they thinking over at The Atlantic? Later this week, the normally fact-focused magazine and media company is hosting an event entitled "Harvest: Transforming the Food We Eat" in New York City — and the event is wholly underwritten by the Agricultural Division of DowDuPont.

Event promotional materials promise to highlight how innovators are “making the global food system more sustainable and productive.” So why is it sponsored by one of the world's largest pesticide manufacturers? And why aren't there any farmers on the panel?

Center for Environmental Health 12 February 2018 | Caroline Cox

On Thursday, The Atlantic is hosting a livestreamed event called “Harvest: Transforming the Food We Eat”. It looks to be a fascinating discussion of new food technologies, including making meat without animals and other cutting-edge ideas.

The Nation 09 February2018 | PRATCH RUJIVANAROM

Eastern industrial estate linked to air quality as PM2.5 levels exceed safe levels.

BANGKOK’S SERIOUS air pollution was partly generated from coal-fired power plants in the Eastern Seaboard Industrial Zone, Greenpeace has revealed.

Bangkok Post 08 February 2018

The Pollution Control Department warned on Thursday that unhealthy levels of particulate matter would continue to make life uncomfortable in Bangkok for a few more days, blaming it on weather conditions.

The department reported the noon levels of particulate matter 2.5 microns or less in diameter (PM2.5) ranged between 72 and 95 microgrammes per cubic metre of air. This was up from 69-94mcg on Thursday morning. The safe level is no more than 50mcg

Bangkok Post 05 February 2018

TRANG: Seven tambons in Trang's Kantang district have been declared a disaster zone amid health concerns for people in local communities following a huge fire at a rubber glove factory.

Residents of 41 villages in seven tambons have reported suffering respiratory problems caused by inhalation of smoke from the fire.

Bangkok Post 05 February 2018

CHON BURI: A fire caused extensive damage at a tube and condenser manufacturing factory in an industrial estate in Phan Thong district early on Monday morning.

At least 10 fire trucks were called in to fight the blaze, which was reported about 1am at a factory owned by SeAH Precision Metal (Thailand) Co Ltd in Amata Nakorn Industrial Estate, Thai media reported.

NT News 03 February 2018 | ALISTER DOYLE

BILLION of bits of plastic waste are entangled in corals and sickening reefs from Thailand to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, scientists say.

The trash is another pressure on corals, already suffering from over-fishing, rising temperatures caused by climate change and other pollution. In the Asia-Pacific region a total of 11.1 billion plastic items — including shopping bags, fishing nets, even diapers and tea-bags — are ensnared on reefs, the scientists wrote in the journal Science this week.

Frontier 02 February 2018

The Karen National Union has demanded negotiations with the Union government over plans to resume building a two-lane highway between the Thai border and the Dawei Special Economic Zone in Tanintharyi Region.

The KNU said in a statement on February 1 that the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement it signed in October 2015 stipulated that the government “must negotiate” with signatories over the implementation of socio-economic development projects.

The Isaan Record 02 February 2018 | Mana Nueatho

ROI ET – Last Monday, the mayor of Subdistrict Municipality Dongsing agreed to meet the demands of protesters opposing a controversial waste incinerator project in the area. Accusing the municipality of rigging the results of a public hearing in December last year, the local group demanded to repeat the event.

Bangkok Post 02 Feburay 2018

Environment ministers from the six member countries of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) endorsed a five-year environmental agenda that includes more than US$540 million (16.9 billion baht) worth of priority projects to spur green investments and increase environmental cooperation to help the region achieve sustainable growth.