Tag: Thailand - Page 2
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Fungus Turns Ants into Zombies, Then Eats Their Brains
The daily life of a hardworking carpenter ant must be pretty repetitive, what with the constant marching and relentless leaf-cutting -- unless they run across a fungus which has the power to turn them into mindless, bumbling
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Would You Pay a Tiny Flight Tax to Help Protect People from Climate Change?
Economists at the International Institute for Environment and Development say a "small tax" on international airline tickets could raise $10 billion (US) a year to help people adapt to the impacts of climate change. People
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World's First Dengue Fever Vaccine Developed - Public Sale Still a Decade Off
Researchers in Thailand have announced that they have developed the world's first live attenuated vaccine for dengue fever. Endemic in over 100 nations, and spreading due to climate change as the mosquitos which carry it expand their
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TYIN Tegnestue - Rustic Yet Sleekly Modern Humanitarian Architecture (Photos)
A few weeks ago I was walking around the WOMAD festival munching on Riverford Organic brownies and sipping from a Frank Water refillable bottle when I stumbled across the Roots Architecture camp and was immediately struck by the beauty
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Mosquitoes Love Black Leggings, Thai Gov't Warns
Recently, officials in Thailand issued a message to women, particularly teenage girls, warning them of the dangers of wearing black leggings -- suggesting instead that they switch to jeans. While it may sound a bit like the sentiments of an overbearing
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Architects Build Thai Townhouse Façade Out Of Banana Plants
TreeHugger has often discussed the use of screens or shutters to keep the sun out while providing ventilation and privacy. Thai architects Pailin Paijitsattaya and Kanin Amboon of Architectkidd found a more local, traditional way of doing this: hand
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"Monkey Police" Officer Plays By His Own Rules
It may sound like a premise to some hotly anticipated buddy-film, but the story of how one pig-tailed macaque got a job working for the Thailand police is no
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The Electric Bicycle World Tour and What The World Looks Like from an E-Bike (video)
Guim Valls Teruel is travelling 5 continents on an electric bicycle to promote the use of cleaner energy and the non-reliance on fossil fuel worldwide. Currently in New Zealand, the Electric Bicycle World Tour has already clogged quite a lot of mileage
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Rammed Earth + Prefab = Quick and Cheap DIY House
Last year's container house by Chuta Sinthuphan of Site-Specific was such a hit at a Bangkok home show that the firm was invited back to do another model. This time, Chuta tells us: "Because when people
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!F Film Festival: Thai Director's Lost 'Agrarian Utopia'
The "heavenly home in the field" that is the Thai title of the experimental documentary/drama Sawan Baan Naa is increasingly unattainable for the farmers depicted in the the movie, a film-festival
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10 Breathtaking Waterfront Campgrounds Around the World
From the jungles of Colombia to Turkey's Mediterranean coast, camping is even better when you have a breathtaking waterfront view.
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Climate Bottom Meeting Puts Spotlight on Communities, Traditional Knowledge & Climate Change
Since the chances of getting one of the few available tickets to the opening plenary session of COP15 over at the Bella Center seemed thin (and the odds of anything radically new being said even thinner) I headed over to
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New Modern Thai Prefab Busts Out of Shipping Container Limitations
Earlier this year we showed a container home designed by Thai architect Chutayaves Sinthuphan of Site-Specific; then this summer he showed us about a little container home built by a collaborator, BlueBrown. Now they appear to
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Post-Bangkok Q&A; with Antonio Hill, Oxfam's Climate Envoy: We Need a "Major Turnaround"
By the time climate talks in Bangkok wrapped up
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Did Rich Countries Leave Bangkok Climate Talks in Stalemate?
Now, the Final Stretch to Copenhagen Time to loosen those collars. After a tough mock trial and tougher words, the world's richest and poorest nations have left 11 days of climate talks in Bangkok with little to show for it, a month and a half before
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8 Environmentalists Who Rule: The Globe's Greenest Royalty
From the House of Windsor in Britain to the Alawi dynasty in Morocco, members of royal families around the globe aren't just playing
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Readers, Send Us Your Eco-Vacation Photos!
As summer is -- dare I say -- nearing its end, we want to see pictures of your eco-vacations and green travel adventures. Did you fly
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Asia Heading For Chronic Food Shortages Without Better Water Management, Report Says
Last week we learned that India has some got some serious groundwater problems due to extensive irrigation of agriculture. Now, scientists meeting at World Water Week in Sweden are reinforcing and broadening that point,
