Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said on Oct 15 his government is looking into which companies may be responsible for Indonesia's fires. He is also exploring joint action with other countries. Operators with Indonesian concessions have legal and diplomatic questions to weigh alongside the reputational one.
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Peat fires produce most of Indonesia's haze from under a third of its wildfires
Peat burns in under a third of Indonesia's wildfires but yields most of the haze, according to Greenpeace research. Fire emissions reached 140.5 megatonnes by Oct. 6, the highest since 2019, Copernicus data show.
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Malaysia shut schools in Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and four states on Oct 9 as haze drove air quality to unhealthy levels. How much warning families get next time depends on which of the education ministry's two pollutant-index triggers is crossed.
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Indonesia's cross-border haze case rests on two health numbers without a baseline
An eruption and a cross-border haze episode hit Indonesia in the same week. The aviation disruption came with counts. The health figures quoted for Sarawak and Manila arrive as associations.
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Malaysia closes 647 schools in Serian after its air index crossed 500
Sarawak's emergency turns on a single pollution index crossing a policy threshold, a number that describes the air at a sensor rather than the dose a district has breathed, and neither AFP dispatch carries a comparable reading for Singapore or Brunei.
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Indonesian fires outran 2015's emissions for one measured week
CAMS is comparing this season to 2015 and 2019, both exceptional El Nino years. For anyone planning around regional haze, the more durable input is the drained peatland that turns a dry spell into weeks of smoke downwind.
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Kalimantan's fires: El Nino is the multiplier, the drained peat is the base rate
NASA FIRMS counts show a sharp August spike across five provinces. A published study puts El Nino's megafire effect at roughly 2.7x, and severe fires still happen without it.
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Indonesia scales cloud seeding against a fire season it cannot yet count
Jakarta has dozens of aircraft on standby to seed clouds over Borneo. Its own burned-area figure is roughly a third of what independent monitoring reports.
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