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Snowless winter in Himalayas – another sign of climate change

Lack of snow could mean water shortages for millions across Asia

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/environment/tibet-snowless-winter-01232024144224.html

#MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate #Himalayas


Snowless winter in Himalayas – another sign of climate change

Lack of snow could mean water shortages for millions across Asia.
By Subel Rai Bhandari and Tenzin Pema for RFA Tibetan (Radio Free Asia)
#environment #Ecology #climate #pollution #massextinction #himalayas

#Thailand - Bangkok council passes bill making all buses electric

> The Bangkok Metropolitan Council (BMC) has passed an ordinance on electric passenger buses to reduce #pollution. The law will make all buses in Bangkok #ElectricVehicles (#EVs) within 7 years and make #Bangkok's air cleaner.
https://prachataienglish.com/node/10648 #SouthEastAsia #TootSEA


Bangkok council passes bill making all buses electric 

The Bangkok Metropolitan Council (BMC) has passed an ordinance on electric passenger buses to reduce pollution. The law will make all buses in Bangkok electric vehicles (EVs) within 7 years and make Bangkok's air cleaner.
Prachatai English
#pollution #evs #southeastasia #Thailand #tootsea #bangkok #ElectricVehicles

The link between climate change and serious and organised crime is complex. On one hand, criminals infiltrate legal businesses and organisations aimed at protecting the environment. On the other hand, criminal activities such as wildlife trafficking and illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, but also illicit drug production, counterfeiting of goods, and several types of fraud have direct and indirect
environmental impacts

https://www.europol.europa.eu/publications-events/publications/environmental-crime-in-age-of-climate-change-2022-threat-assessment # # #

Environmental crime in the age of climate change: 2022 threat assessment | Europol

This is Europol’s latest threat assessment on environmental crime. Environmental crime has become a key threat to global security and a profitable criminal activity, as much in the EU as worldwide.
Europol
#environment #climateemergency #pollution

Fascinating website on air pollution. https://www.addresspollution.org/ Put in my current postcode here in Cambrian Mountains- 1st percentile (phew!)
Previous address in Bucks 81st percentile! Previous address to that in Bristol was 64th percentile. So Bristol was actually cleaner than rural Bucks! Who knew. # # #

addresspollution.org

What are you breathing? Get a free Air Quality report for your address. See if it exceeds World Health Organization limits for clean air. #addresspollution
addresspollution.org
#health #environment #pollution

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