In this photo taken on October 10, 2023, a man looks at a forest fire as it approaches houses in Ogan Ilir, South Sumatra. Al Zulkifli | Afp | Getty Images With El Nino in full force, officials are bracing for the worst transboundary haze in southern Southeast Asia since before the pandemic in 2019. … Read more
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia denied Friday that forest and peat fires on Sumatra and Borneo islands were causing the haze in Malaysia, after the neighboring government sent a letter complaining about the air quality and asking for both countries to work together to deal with the blazes. Forest and peat fires are an annual problem … Read more
TORONTO — Canadian wildfires will ship worsening smoky air throughout the nation and neighboring United States in coming days after latest heavy rains didn’t fall in areas of Quebec the place the fires are most energetic, officers mentioned Wednesday. Drifting smoke from the wildfires has lowered curtains of haze on broad swaths of Canada and … Read more