Smoke and Air Pollution
Increasingly poor air quality from urban smog, dry conditions, smoke from clearing forests for other uses
Patterns of Physical Geography
Mainland Environments
Rugged uplands interspersed with broad lowlands associated with large rivers
Mountains are found along the Thai-Burma border, and through Laos and southern Vietnam
Rivers: Mekong, Irrawaddy, Red, and Chao Phraya
Thailand’s Khorat Plateau has thin, poor soils and water shortages