Southeast Asia’s haze crisis will persist until polluters pay
🤖 AI-generated content — The title and summary were produced automatically by artificial intelligence, without human editorial review.
Deliberate forest and peat burning to clear cheap agricultural land has again spread haze across Southeast Asia, closing Malaysian schools, polluting Singapore, reaching the Philippines, and threatening Kalimantan. Dry weather and El Niño worsen fires, but ASEAN must change incentives so polluters bear cross-border costs instead of repeating firefighting and mask handouts alone.
Continue in the app — vote & join in ➔Source: Al Jazeera English · via ahirlevel.hu