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Karen community fighting corn and coal for clean air in northern Thailand
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Northern Thailand is trapped in a cycle of air pollution driven by maize cultivation for the animal feed industry, with field burning each year choking the region in hazardous haze.
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Anguish for residents as Thailand’s most polluting coal plant gets new lease of life
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Thailand has announced it will delay the decommissioning of several coal-fired units at the 2,400-megawatt Mae Moh power plant in Lampang province, prompting fears among communities who have dealt with health problems linked to the plant for decades.
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Specter of dams and diversion looms over Southeast Asia’s Salween River
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The Thai-backed Hatgyi Dam and the Yuam River Diversion Project risk submerging villages, displacing Indigenous Karen communities, and diverting massive amounts of water for agriculture in central Thailand.
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New dams call into question Cambodia’s commitment to REDD+ projects
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Three new irrigation dams have been approved in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains, overlapping with two carbon credit projects
