2006 Southeast Asian haze
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title:
2006 Southeast Asian haze
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The 2006 Southeast Asian haze was an air pollution event caused by continuous, uncontrolled burning from "slash and burn" cultivation in Indonesia, which affected several countries in the Southeast Asian region and beyond, including Malaysia, Singapore, southern Thailand, and as far away as Saipan; the effects of the haze may have even spread to South Korea. Local sources of industrial pollution also, inadvertently, contributed to increases in air toxicity; notably at-risk areas included communi
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Haze over the Southeast Asia region in mid-2006
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Southeast_Asian_haze
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2023-11-06T16:03:49Z
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