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Intentional forest fires choke Singapore and spread global climate peril

By Staff Reports | June 24, 2013

Haze in Singapore

My wife and I arrived in Singapore last week with our two teenage daughters for a short vacation with relatives who have a house in the rolling hills of the Upper Paya Lebar district. Before we departed the USA we were oblivious to the haze which had just started to creep over the island nation, a smoky presence delivered by the wind blowing in from Indonesia. For the first … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate Tagged With: air pollution, haze, Indonesia, palm oil, rainforest, Singapore, WR Flynn

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