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Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC)

Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC)

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...
Han on Haze

Han on Haze

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...
Fire hazards in Chiang Mai?

Fire hazards in Chiang Mai?

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...

FIRE Season Loometh

by Ricky Ward | Oct 14, 2009 | Climate Change / การเปลี่ยนแปลงสภาพภูมิอากาศ, General / ทั่วไป

As the rains ease in October it is time once again to see what can be done to ease the perennial problems we have every dry season from forest fire and open burning and the associated problems of smoke-haze, bronchial illness, soil erosion and loss of bio-diversity....

Fire & Burning – Encouraging News & Advice

by Ricky Ward | Jan 4, 2009 | General / ทั่วไป, Pollution / มลภาวะ

I will state again my position on noise and air pollution. There needs to be an integral effort of public education, law enforcement and peer pressure. Just complaining won’t get us anything but disrespect. I agree with the post that said don’t re-invent...
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