Haze Crisis

A smoky haze hangs over India's northern plains and New Delhi, every year as winter sets in, raising fears for the health of many millions of people as the government order fixes that do little to clear the air.

A massive plume of dust whipped up from the Sahara desert will hover over the US Southeast this weekend, forecasters say, shrouding the region in a brown haze and raising more health concerns in states where the coronavirus crisis is worsening.

As Delhi chokes and suffers under a toxic and poisonous haze, calls for a #DelhiBandh have begun doing the rounds on social media, urging people to boycott work and stay indoors on Monday

Yogesh Kumar wheezes after life-saving surgery to remove a diseased lung, but his surgeons wonder how long he can last outside hospital breathing some of the world's dirtiest air. Smog kills more than one million Indians every year and Delhi has the worst air of any major city on the planet, the World Health Organization says. Every November, hospi...

Acrid smog blanketed Singapore Friday as the city-state was hit by the year's first major outbreak of haze, an annual crisis sparked by forest fires in neighbouring Indonesia.

Most of us can't wait to get back indoors after braving the haze of soot and smoke hanging over Mumbai every day, but no one bears the brunt of this city's imploding pollution crisis more than the traffic police who are forced to spend hours doing their duty right in the middle of all the dust and din from the city's roads.

Desperate civilians at the epicentre of Indonesia's haze crisis are taking the fight into the own hands, using whatever meagre resources they have to confront the fires ravaging their communities as they tire of waiting for the government to take action.

Endangered orangutans are falling victim to a devastating haze crisis that has left them sick, malnourished and severely traumatised as fires rage through Indonesia's forests, reducing their habitat to a charred wasteland.

Indonesia's President Joko Widodo will cut short his trip to the United States on Tuesday to help deal with clouds of smoke large areas of his country.

Indonesia's disaster agency warned on Wednesday that haze could return to neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia after a huge jump in forest fires in a province at the centre of a smog crisis last year.

A smoky haze hangs over India's northern plains and New Delhi, every year as winter sets in, raising fears for the health of many millions of people as the government order fixes that do little to clear the air.

A massive plume of dust whipped up from the Sahara desert will hover over the US Southeast this weekend, forecasters say, shrouding the region in a brown haze and raising more health concerns in states where the coronavirus crisis is worsening.

As Delhi chokes and suffers under a toxic and poisonous haze, calls for a #DelhiBandh have begun doing the rounds on social media, urging people to boycott work and stay indoors on Monday

Yogesh Kumar wheezes after life-saving surgery to remove a diseased lung, but his surgeons wonder how long he can last outside hospital breathing some of the world's dirtiest air. Smog kills more than one million Indians every year and Delhi has the worst air of any major city on the planet, the World Health Organization says. Every November, hospi...

Acrid smog blanketed Singapore Friday as the city-state was hit by the year's first major outbreak of haze, an annual crisis sparked by forest fires in neighbouring Indonesia.

Most of us can't wait to get back indoors after braving the haze of soot and smoke hanging over Mumbai every day, but no one bears the brunt of this city's imploding pollution crisis more than the traffic police who are forced to spend hours doing their duty right in the middle of all the dust and din from the city's roads.

Desperate civilians at the epicentre of Indonesia's haze crisis are taking the fight into the own hands, using whatever meagre resources they have to confront the fires ravaging their communities as they tire of waiting for the government to take action.

Endangered orangutans are falling victim to a devastating haze crisis that has left them sick, malnourished and severely traumatised as fires rage through Indonesia's forests, reducing their habitat to a charred wasteland.

Indonesia's President Joko Widodo will cut short his trip to the United States on Tuesday to help deal with clouds of smoke large areas of his country.

Indonesia's disaster agency warned on Wednesday that haze could return to neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia after a huge jump in forest fires in a province at the centre of a smog crisis last year.