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The Southeast Asian haze is a fire-related recurrent transboundary air pollution issue. Haze events, where air quality reaches hazardous levels due to high concentrations of airborne particulate matter from burning biomass, [1] have caused adverse health, environmental and economic impacts in several countries in Southeast Asia.
By scattering and absorbing light, the fire-related particulate also resulted in reduced visibility; impairing transportation by air, land and water and seriously affecting the economies of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Among the economic sectors affected most were air, land and sea transportation, construction, tourism and agricultural ...
Fires created smoke that disrupted air travel and sickened people. [18] Indonesia environment minister said smog was also from fires ignited from hotspots in Malaysia and Vietnam . Indonesia's Disaster Mitigation Agency said more than 3,600 fires had been detected on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo by weather satellites.
People living in the Midwest and Northeast were warned of a worsening air quality index throughout the week due to smoke from the Canadian wildfires
The Air Quality Index database shows poor air quality conditions are continuing around much of northern Massachusetts today, after brush fires broke out around the state over the weekend.
Heavy rains in Sumatra and Kalimantan in the last days of October 2015 significantly reduced the size and number of fires, and improved the air quality in most affected areas. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 35 ] [ 36 ] In turn, the NEA of Singapore stopped issuing haze advisories from 15 November 2015.
In New York City, the Air Quality Index (AQI) — which measures the amount of pollutants in the air on a 0 to 500 scale — is currently the second-worst in the U.S., at 166, a level that is ...
The 1997 group of forest fires in Indonesia that lasted well into 1998 were probably among the two or three, if not the largest, forest fires group in the last two centuries of recorded history. In the middle of 1997 forest fires burning in Indonesia began to affect neighbouring countries, spreading thick clouds of smoke and haze to Malaysia ...