| News - Environment Written by Mizzima News Thursday, 10 June 2010 23:43 | | Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – National League for Democracy party young members have started planting more than 20,000 saplings today in states and divisions in honour of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s 65th birthday on June 19. |
| News - Environment Written by Bernama Friday, 16 April 2010 16:49 | | | YANGON, April 15 (Bernama) -- Myanmar's forest-covered area has reduced by 14 percent in 35 years, registering 40 percent of the country's total land area now, according to figures of the Food and Agriculture Organisation available here Thursday. |
| News - Environment Written by DVB Wednesday, 07 April 2010 18:24 | | China rejected criticism Monday of its dams on the shrinking Mekong River, telling Southeast Asian leaders that it was not to blame for a regional drought affecting millions of people. |
| News - Environment Written by Xinhua Sunday, 10 January 2010 23:40 | | | The Myanmar authorities have banned the use of Chloroflurocarbon (CFC) gas starting this month, saying that such gas destroys the ozone layer, the local Flower News reported Sunday... |
| News - Environment Written by Earthtimes Sunday, 10 January 2010 23:28 | | | A French film company is making a documentary on Myanmar's elephants employed in the logging industry which will compare their lifestyles with those employed in tourism in Thailand, Sri Lanka and India ... |
| News - Environment Written by Hnaung Hlaning/Kantarawaddy Times Thursday, 07 January 2010 22:45 | | | Forestry experts have predicted that there will be massive deforestation leading to a desert like situation because premature trees are being felled in Thar Yar area in Pha Saung Township in Karenni state. |
| News - Environment Written by Kyaw Kha/Mizzima News Friday, 16 October 2009 18:59 | | | Mice infestation has destroyed paddy fields in Rakhine State causing food scarcity in villages in Tungup Township. Mice in large numbers have destroyed seasonal vegetables and crops ... |
| News - Environment Written by FOSTER KLUG / AP Tuesday, 11 August 2009 16:30 | |  US officials today reported that a huge 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck in the Indian Ocean and issued a regional tsunami watch for India, Burma, Indonesia, Thailand and Bangladesh that was lifted later... |
| News - Environment Written by Usa Pichai/Mizzima News Wednesday, 05 August 2009 18:52 | | | Environmentalists have appealed to the government of Thailand to revise its new energy plan that may have been ‘over estimated’, even as a new report reveals the human costs that the proposed Salween mega-dam project will extract in war-ravaged Shan State in Burma... |
| News - Environment Written by Francis Wade/DVB Monday, 03 August 2009 16:00 | | | Torrential rain in western Burma has forced the evacuation of over 300 homes, with some areas experiencing five feet of rain, state-run media reported on Saturday. Heavy rains hit Arakan state’s Thandwe and An townships on 29 July and continued over the weekend ... |
| News - Environment Written by Bernama Saturday, 01 August 2009 19:11 | | | Floods, triggered by torrential rains, have forced over 300 households in Myanmar's two towns in western Rakhine state to evacuate, China's Xinhua news agency said quoting a report Saturday in the official newspaper New Light of Myanmar... |
| News - Environment Written by APINYA WIPATAYOTIN/Bangkok Post Friday, 31 July 2009 09:56 | | | Environmental, social and human rights groups are slamming the adoption of plans for hydropower dams on the Salween River by Asean energy ministers. The groups yesterday claimed the dams would cause massive damage to the river and communities ... |
| News - Environment Written by LAWI WENG/The Irrawaddy Thursday, 30 July 2009 21:35 | | | An estimated 100 residents in Hpakant Township, also known as Jade Land, in northern Kachin State have been ordered to relocate following a landslide on July 5, according to local residents. Residents in Hpakant Township said that the municipal authority ordered the relocation ... |
| News - Environment Written by JJ Kim/DVB Tuesday, 28 July 2009 23:09 | | | July 28, 2009 (DVB)–Intense militarization of Burma’s river areas is a byproduct of the government’s near obsession with hydropower, for which the only benefits will be felt by energy hungry neighbours and Burma’s expanding military... |
| News - Environment Written by VOA News Sunday, 12 July 2009 18:20 | | | The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs issued a report Friday, detailing actions to be taken in the wake of a landslide in Burma on July 4 that killed at least 30 people... |
| News - Environment Written by Xinhua Sunday, 12 July 2009 18:15 | | | The United Nations is assessing how it can assist Myanmar in the wake of a deadly landslide caused by heavy rains which swept away a jade miners' settlement in the north of the country, UN officials said here on Friday... |
| News - Environment Written by Mizzima News Sunday, 12 July 2009 17:49 | | | Paddy fields in Pyinsalu, Laputta Township, Irrawaddy Division have been inundated with saline water and destroyed, following bidding for sea-water prawn fishing, local residents said... |
| News - Environment Written by LAWI WENG/The Irrawaddy Thursday, 09 July 2009 21:28 | | | At least 30 people have died in a massive landslide that swept away homes, blocked roads and cut communications in Burma’s northern Kachin State. No official death toll has been released. Reuters news agency put the toll at 30 ... |
| News - Environment Written by Kachin News Group Wednesday, 08 July 2009 20:18 | | | The death toll has risen to 70 in the aftermath of floods and landslides in Burma's Hpakant jade mining area in the country's northern Kachin State on July 4 and 5. Hundreds have been injured including over 10 people from local Kachin Baptist Churches ... |
| News - Environment Written by Reuters India Wednesday, 08 July 2009 20:04 | | | A landslide caused by torrential rain killed about 30 people in northern Myanmar at the weekend when it swept away their homes, which were built on a mine dump, people in contact with the area said on Wednesday... |
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