PETALING JAYA: Even as Malaysia braces itself for haze due to looming dry and hot conditions this year, experts warn that the frequency of such episodes has reduced from once in nine years to every other year since 1982.
In a report prepared by Akademi Sains Malaysia and presented by its vice-president Prof Datuk Dr A. Bakar Jaafar, it said climate change, or El Nino, was no longer the controlling factor in the increase and frequency of haze episodes in the southwestern part of South-East Asia.
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