'Rainmakers' and transboundary smog: Thailand's struggling battle against air pollution

'Rainmakers' and transboundary smog: Thailand's struggling battle against air pollution
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'Rainmakers' and transboundary smog: Thailand's struggling battle against air pollution
Published: Feb, 08 2025 00:01

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'Rainmakers' and transboundary smog: Thailand's struggling battle against air pollution For weeks now, most of the friends and families I know have had a cough of some kind.

Air pollution now linked to hospital admissions for mental health, study finds.

A couple of hours drive away in Ratchaburi province, you can see a big part of the problem - burnt fields of rice, sugar cane and corn - the product of slash-and-burn farming.

Pollution is linked to the deaths of 100 children under five daily in South East Asia and the Pacific, according to a report this week by UNICEF.

For weeks, I've had to rush my children into school with masks on, as the cheery teachers apologetically declare: "Pollution day so straight into class please.".

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