The Natural Resource and Environment Ministry is taking definitive steps to prevent forest fires in the North after satellite images showed that nearly 80% of hot spots were based in forests.
Local opposition to a planned coal mine in northern Thailand escalated in April when plaintiffs representing more than 600 villagers filed a lawsuit requesting the revocation of an environmental impact assessment conducted and approved more than 10 years ago. Members of Kabeudin village, an Indigenous Karen community in Omkoi district, Chiang Mai province, filed the […]