Chiang Mai was ranked as the world’s most polluted city by air quality monitor IQAir on Thursday. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BANGKOK – Raging forest fires in northern Thailand are threatening to worsen the country’s air pollution, which has sent nearly two million people to hospitals with respiratory illnesses since the beginning of the year.
Firefighters and other officials have been deployed to monitor the affected areas, as burning of farmlands and illegal foraging occur during this time of the year, Mr Anucha said in a statement on Thursday. Several wildfires are also reported from protected forests in Thailand’s north, with several hot spots across the borders in neighbouring Myanmar and Laos, a satellite heat map by a Thai space agency showed.
Bangkok and other Thai cities have grappled with poor air quality in recent years, with pollution tending to get worse in the dry season around December to February due largely to agricultural burning in Thailand and neighbouring countries, and vehicular emission.
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