by Ricky Ward | Sep 3, 2023 | Climate Change / การเปลี่ยนแปลงสภาพภูมิอากาศ, General / ทั่วไป, Vegetation / พืซ
El Ninyo looks like being a real killer in 2023-24. It’s already dry, and possibly more hot heat is to come.Usually, the rainy season in Thailand starts from about July onwards, which is the best time to plant forest trees. But by the last week in August, dry...
by Ricky Ward | Dec 12, 2022 | General / ทั่วไป
The Thai constitution Section 58 In regard to any undertaking by the State or which the State will permit any person to carry out, if such undertaking may severely affect the natural resources, environmental quality, health, sanitation, quality of life or any other...
by Ricky Ward | Apr 25, 2022 | General / ทั่วไป, Town Planning / การวางผังเมือง, Vegetation / พืซ
We need more trees in Chiang Mai to make it more comfortable for cyclists throughout the day and to help encourage others to get out of their cars and use their bicycles instead. Along the main Irrigation Canal from Mae Daeng, Chiang Mai has paths for cycling and...
by Ricky Ward | Feb 8, 2021 | Climate Change / การเปลี่ยนแปลงสภาพภูมิอากาศ, General / ทั่วไป, Pollution / มลภาวะ
Forest fires in February are in the news again. To put the issue in a wider perspective Dr Johann Goldammer, Director of the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC), Fire Ecology Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Freiburg, Germany has kindly sent this...
by Ricky Ward | Jul 8, 2020 | General / ทั่วไป
Last century, in times when the wealthy travelled by train the Royal Siam Railway built hotels in Hua Hin and one in Chiang Mai just across the road to the North of station.The Chiang Mai Railway Hotel is long gone but the land where it once stood and to its West and...
by Ricky Ward | May 9, 2019 | Climate Change / การเปลี่ยนแปลงสภาพภูมิอากาศ
Smog , Smog , Smog for three months. February to April and then into March, the same pattern we have been writing about for years. This year folk were saying ‘Why not declare a “Smoke Emergency” ?’ The trouble is that it is much, much worse...
by Ricky Ward | Feb 14, 2018 | General / ทั่วไป, Pollution / มลภาวะ
♥ Lovely that Han Thomas has allowed us to share his latest observations about Chiang Mai smoke haze …. The hazy season: that time between roughly Valentine’s and Songkran when particulate matter pollution peaks throughout the Northern region, as...
by Ricky Ward | Nov 27, 2017 | General / ทั่วไป, Vegetation / พืซ
How do we get from this … at Chiang Mai Railway Park To that ..at Huai Kaeo (Huai Keow) Arboretum? The cheeky answer is of course walk if you cannot find wheels as the distance is but a few kilometres from the hot mess by the railway station. But should you...
by Ricky Ward | Jul 9, 2017 | General / ทั่วไป, Town Planning / การวางผังเมือง
Following the deadly fire in London in June 2017, cities around the world are asking questions about fire safety standards and, in places as remote as Melbourne in the antipodes, finding them lacking. So the question here is, what about Chiang Mai? Building systems...
by Ricky Ward | May 2, 2017 | Pollution / มลภาวะ
Han Thomas of the Expat Community of Chiang Mai , Facebook group reports …. As per Admin request let me write a report on this year’s haze/smog season in Northern Thailand. I’m using values from the downtown station of the Pollution Control...
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