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A CHARRED hillside is wreathed by flames, spewing ochre smoke that smothers out sunlight in an apocalyptic scene.
PETALING JAYA: With haze clouding the skies again, Malaysian plantation companies operating in Indonesia should ensure its workers do not aggravate the situation by resorting to slash-and-burn methods for land clearing, says Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye.
Less than a year after the worst wildfires in Bolivia's history, farmers face a choice: continue starting blazes to clear land for agriculture, or plant trees to mitigate worsening droughts.
PETALING JAYA: Experts are calling for practical and effective measures such as better water management and more transparency and disclosure in supply chains to be included in any new roadmap to tackle transboundary haze in Asean.
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network): Indonesia’s government has warned farmers and plantation companies to be on guard against fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan due to possible prolonged drier conditions across South-East Asia caused by the El Nino weather pattern.
Indonesia is dousing forest fires with water sprayed from helicopters and inducing rain through cloudseeding, its environment minister said on Friday, but denied that hazardous haze was crossing borders, as neighbouring Malaysia has said.
Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Sunday (Oct 1, 2023)
JAKARTA (Reuters): The perennial issue of transboundary haze has again sparked friction in Southeast Asia, with Malaysia's environment minister writing to the Indonesian government this week calling for a regional response to the toxic smoke drifting across his nation.
Singapore's air quality fell into the unhealthy range on Saturday, official readings showed, as increased forest fires from neighbouring Indonesia brought haze to the city-state.
THE devastating impact of haze pollution was the theme of a captivating art exhibition at RexKL.
MIRI: Wildfires caused by open burning are starting in Miri division in northern Sarawak again.
The United States' largest pension fund has classified more than US$3bil of holdings in oil drillers, coal miners, and other major greenhouse gas producers as climate-friendly investments, according to a new analysis of public records.
BY this time of the year, rain should be drenching large swaths of the Amazon rainforest. Instead, a punishing drought has kept the rains at bay, creating dry conditions for fires that have engulfed hundreds of square kilometres of the rainforest that do not usually burn.
PETALING JAYA: A Transboundary Haze Act (THA) is needed to hold Malaysian companies or individuals accountable for causing haze from open burning, says Yeo Bee Yin.
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia’s neighbours are also feeling the heat as fires rage across Laos, Thailand and Myanmar, causing haze to spread to the rest of the region.
JAKARTA (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Several provinces in Sumatra and Kalimantan have been blanketed with haze from raging forest fires that worsened in August, causing a surge in people with respiratory ailments such as sore throat and shortness of breath.
BENGALURU: Abinaya Tamilarasu said her four cows are part of the family. She has a degree in commerce from a local college, but prefers being home milking cows and tending to her family’s land.“
KUALA LUMPUR: Across swathes of South-East Asia, maturing palm oil trees, some as tall as a 12-storey building, are turning into a multi-billion dollar headache for local farmers, regional governments and consumers everywhere.
NEW electric models from Rivian Automotive Inc and Lucid Group Inc have won rave reviews, but you’ll have to be patient to drive one.
Air pollution is one of the various triggers that can precipitate the symptoms of asthma.
