Science news articles about 'bangkok'

  • Climate talks resume in Bangkok with deal in doubt

    BANGKOK (AP) -- Two years ago, governments from around the world came together on the island of Bali and agreed to urgently rein in the heat-trapping gases blamed for deadly heat waves, melting ...
  • UN climate talks open in Bangkok

    United Nations climate talks have begun in Bangkok with leaders calling on delegates to break the deadlock over a global warming deal.
  • Giant River Stingrays Found Near Thai City

    Fourteen-foot-long rays—perhaps the largest freshwater fish—are thriving not far from Bangkok. But overfishing may still threaten the giants.
  • Thousands Feared Dead in China Earthquake [News]

    ... 107 dead.The epicenter of the quake was in Wenchuan County in Sichuan Province near the famed Wolong Nature Reserve, home of the panda breeding program--but was felt as far away as Bangkok. [More]
  • Endangered bird in Australia making comeback

    BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Australian officials say they are having success with a captive breeding program aimed at saving an endangered native bird, the regent honeyeater....
  • Rare behavior shows species adaptability

    BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Long-tailed macaque monkeys have a reputation for knowing how to find food - whether it be grabbing fruit from jungle trees or snatching a banana from a startled tourist....
  • Better treatments for malaria in pregnancy are needed

    ... (Mahidol–Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand) and colleagues describe a dangerous "catch-22" situation that prevents the health ...
  • Extended cyclone relief efforts aided from space

    ... to derive 29 damage maps. These maps were provided to the UN community in Myanmar and Bangkok for the emergency response phase, which lasted more than 40 days because of the scale of devastation ...
  • Study: Orangutan populations declining sharply

    BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Orangutan numbers have declined sharply on the only two islands where they still live in the wild and they could become the first great ape species to go extinct if ...
  • Temple spat rages in Thailand after UNESCO listing

    BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's top court questioned on Tuesday the legality of Bangkok's support for a Cambodian bid to list a disputed Hindu temple as a World Heritage site, giving the opposition ...
  • Study finds arsenic threats in SE Asia

    BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Myanmar's cyclone-devastated Irrawaddy delta and Indonesia's Sumatra island face high risks of arsenic contamination in groundwater that could cause cancer and other ...
  • "Monster" Lake's Rare Giants Lure Anglers, Biologists

    Dog-eating catfish and other rare species are drawing fishers to a sport lake outside Bangkok -- and some conservationists couldn't be happier. With video.
  • VIDEO: Giant River Stingrays Found

    After an exhaustive search, an explorer finds one of the elusive rays—perhaps the largest freshwater fish—near Bangkok. And then it gives birth.
  • Cockroach King reigns as pest-killers discuss climate change

    More than 100 of Southeast Asia's hardiest bugs measured up this week in Bangkok, where experts met to discuss new ways of controlling the pests, which they say are a major contributor to global ...
  • Evidence of ancient tsunamis is found

    BANGKOK, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- A Thai-led international team of geologists said it has found evidence of tsunamis occurring in the Indian Ocean long before the devastating tsunami of 2004.

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