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[6] [5] Thailand's national standards for PM2.5 air quality were revised in 2022 and 2023, to adopt the World Health Organization (WHO) Interim Target 3 (IT-3) of 37.5 μg/m 3 and 15 μg/m 3 for 24 hour and annual measures, respectively. [7] [8] [9] In 2023, over 10 million Thais sought treatment for air pollution-related illnesses. [10]
At 11am on Sunday, the PM2.5 levels at the Don Mueang Airport were recorded at 64.7 micrograms per cubic meter, well above Thailand’s safety threshold of 37.5 µg/m³.
“The government won’t be complacent and will take every possible action to quickly improve the situation,” Thai prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra posted on X, calling PM2.5 smog a ...
Air pollution is among the biggest health problems of modern industrial society and is responsible for more than 10 percent of all deaths worldwide (nearly 4.5 million premature deaths in 2019), according to The Lancet. Air pollution can affect nearly every organ and system of the body, negatively affecting nature and humans alike.
Thailand's national air quality standards are weak when compared to WHO recommendations. [45] In the first six months of 2017, Greenpeace Thailand monitored PM2.5 in 14 provinces, as they have done since 2015, and found that every station recorded levels higher than the WHO recommendation of less than 10 milligrams per cubic meter of air. PM2.5 ...
Below is a list of 526 cities sorted by their annual mean concentration of PM2.5 (μg/m 3) in 2022. [1] [2] By default the least polluted cities which have fewest particulates in the air come first.
5 March – Health officials reported that over 1.3 million people in Thailand had been affected by air pollution-related diseases, mainly caused by PM2.5 dust. [13] 10 March – A radioactive Caesium-137 container was reported missing from a power plant in Prachin Buri Province. It was later found melted and the environment was contaminated ...
ZURICH (Reuters) -Israeli attacks on hospitals in Gaza have devastated the Palestinian enclave's health system and raised serious concerns about Israel's compliance with international law, the U.N ...