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    Southeast Asian haze

    Regular large scale fire-related air pollution problems that occurs in Southeast Asia

    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, have caused adverse health, environmental and economic impacts in several countries in Southeast Asia. Caused primarily by slash-and-burn land clearing, the problem flares up every dry season to varying degrees and generally is worst between July and October and during El Niño events. Transboundary haze in Southeast Asia has been recorded since 1972 with the 1997 and 2015 events being particularly severe. Industrial-scale slash-and-burn practices to clear land for agricultural purposes are a major cause of the haze, particularly for palm oil and pulpwood production in the region. Burning land occurs as it is cheaper and faster compared to cutting and clearing using excavators or other machinery. Wikipedia

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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 .
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    A trans-national air pollution crisis affected several countries in Southeast Asia from February to September 2019, including Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.. Thailand began to experience a haze in February that lasted until May, peaking in March and April. Indonesia began to experience haze between June and July.
  5. en.wikipedia.org

    The 2015 Southeast Asian haze was an air pollution crisis affecting several countries in Southeast Asia, including Brunei, Indonesia (especially its islands of Sumatra and Borneo), Malaysia, Singapore, southern Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and the Philippines.. The haze affected Indonesia from at least late June, [1] to the end of October, turning into an international problem for other ...
  6. th.boell.org

    Oct 16, 2023Haze covering Southeast Asia from Satellite. At the start of 2023, mainland Southeast Asian countries like Thailand and Laos hunkered down under a persistent haze. Heading toward the yearend, it is the turn of the maritime ASEAN countries - Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore - to be on alert during haze season. ...
  7. Nov 17, 2023ASEAN nations must enact domestic transboundary haze pollution laws in order to hold one another, as well as themselves, accountable, putting a rest to the great ASEAN haze blame game. Mainland Southeast Asia faces its own set of challenges from November to February, with slash-and-burn farming creating haze-catalyzing fires from Thailand, Laos ...
  8. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

    Regional air quality in Southeast Asia has been seasonally affected by the transboundary haze problem, which has often been the result of forest fires from "slash-and-burn" farming methods. In light of growing public health concerns, recent studies have begun to examine the health effects of this seasonal haze problem in Southeast Asia.
  9. lowyinstitute.org

    Aug 22, 2024Transboundary haze pollution remains a key environmental challenge for Southeast Asia. Only last year, after a drop in forest and peatland fires due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the region saw the return of intense and smoky fires, exacerbated by a dry El Niño season. Air quality across Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore worsened significantly.
  10. Jun 21, 2023El Ninos usually result in less rainfall in Southeast Asia, and can exacerbate the spread of natural or man-made blazes used to clear land for growing Reading Time: 2 minutes Why you can trust SCMP

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