Washington Post (June 19)
“Scorching heat waves” are testing the “world’s resilience.” Before summer even began, “heat waves had already slammed disparate stretches of the planet, from Bangkok to Barranquilla.” The heat continued elsewhere in May and June. Now “parts of the United States are bracing for a potential record heat wave this week, while wildfires are already spreading” in the west. “In many ways, the climate disaster is already here.”
Tags: Bangkok, Climate disaster, Heat waves, Record, Scorching, Summer, U.S., Wildfires, World’s resilience
Straits Times (December 30)
“By sheer international travel volume, Changi Airport topped the Asia-Pacific region, beating Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport and Seoul’s Incheon International Airport by quite a distance: 32 million passengers handled to the other two’s 18 million each. In terms of recovery, it is also finishing by as much as 10 percentage points higher than the South-east Asia average.”
Tags: Asia-Pacific region, Bangkok, Changi Airport, Incheon International Airport, International, Passengers, Recovery, Seoul, Suvarnabhumi Airport, Top, Travel volume
