Asean climate monitor issues highest alert level over toxic haze

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Fires in Indonesia have spread toxic haze across parts of Southeast Asia, prompting the ASEAN climate and fire monitor to issue its highest alert level. The alert indicates elevated regional fire and haze risks, according to the Singapore-based monitoring centre.

Ongoing fires in Indonesia that have blanketed parts of Southeast Asia with toxic haze have triggered the highest-level alert by the regional bloc’s climate and fire monitor. “Activation of Alert Level 3 for the Southern Asean region,” the Singapore Asean Specialised Meteorological Centre (ASMC) said on its website, seen on Saturday. Based near Singapore’s Changi Airport, the ASMC uses a four-tiered alert level system, from zero to three, with the highest triggered if there is a “high risk of...