Indonesian wildfire haze degrades Northern Mindanao air quality

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY — Transboundary smoke drifting from raging forest and land fires in Kalimantan, Indonesia, has triggered deteriorating air quality across Northern Mindanao, sending pollution gauges in neighboring Iligan City to “acutely unhealthy” levels. Air monitoring data released by the Department of Environmen

Air pollution in Malaysia’s Bornean state of Sarawak has surged into hazardous territory, with the air pollutant index (API) topping 400 in the worst-hit district, as forest fires raging in Indonesia continue to send thick smoke drifting across the border. Serian in Sarawak, closest to the frontier with Indonesia’s Wes