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Indonesia is battling its worst wildfire season in years, testing President Prabowo Subianto’s deep cuts to disaster funding. Toxic haze is now spreading across the region, from Manila to Singapore. Kanupriya Kapoor explains what's fueling the fires. (Source: Bloomberg)
Southern California Edison customers face hundreds of millions of dollars in additional costs if the utility’s credit rating is downgraded to junk after California failed to pass wildfire legislation, according to the head of the utility’s parent company.
More than 170,000 respiratory cases were recorded in regions affected by haze in Indonesia, a health ministry official said on Tuesday, as the country continues its battle to control fires that caused the toxic smog. Blazes in Borneo, Sumatra and Papua have blanketed parts of the vast archipelago of more than 280 million people with haze, as well as neighbouring Malaysia and Singapore, sending air quality indices plummeting. The toxic smog contains pollutants including PM 2.5, a fine particulate...
Croatian authorities have issued an emergency alert as a wildfire rages on Brac Island, off the Dalmatian coast.
A wildfire has burned about 8,700 hectares of vegetation on Mount Kenya since the fire was first reported on Sept 1, Mount Kenya Trust, an environmental conservation group, said.
LatAm Expat & Nomad — Monday, September 7, 2026 Key Facts A hillside wildfire is burning in Valparaíso, Chile, threatening residential neighbourhoods and prompting evacuations. High winds and dry conditions are fuelling the blaze; authorities have issued a red alert for the region. The city centre and port area are not currently threatened, but air […] The post Chile Wildfire Rattles Valparaíso: What Travelers and Expats Need to Know appeared first on The Rio Times.
Peat fires in Borneo are releasing ancient stores of carbon - and sending a toxic smog across South East Asia.
Firefighters brought a blaze in Ecuador's Los Ilinizas Ecological Reserve under control on 3 September after two days. About 200 hectares of páramo burned, a preliminary figure. The post Los Ilinizas Fire Burns About 200 Hectares in Ecuador appeared first on The Rio Times.
Dense growth of dry broom and lemon grass, coupled with strong winds and high temperatures, contributed to the spread of the flames
About 1.4 million students in six Indonesian provinces had shifted to online learning due to poor air quality triggered by forest and land fires, an official said on Wednesday. As of September 2, around 1.43 million students from 12,874 schools in six of the provinces hit hardest by forest and land fires had been studying remotely, Gogot Suharwoto, an education ministry official, told the media. Indonesia has intensified efforts to contain haze caused by wildfire in the six provinces, which...