Risk of hazy conditions across Southeast Asia, as Indonesia battles wildfires amid prolonged dry season

RISK OF Flora FIRE IS INCREASED BY EL NINO

According to Provost’s Chair Professor Rajasekhar Balasubramanian of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of Singapore,” what we need at this point in time would be a mixture of preventative actions and strategic actions, which may mean that we should have increased cooperation between countries in terms of exchanging information about cloud activities and the potential health effect.” & nbsp,

Therefore, we ought to have more clarity. At the same time, we must inform the general public of the significance of safeguarding their heath from particle contact through inhalation.

El Nino is anticipated to get worse over the next two decades, according to weather changes. & nbsp,

” The El Nino wind trend is strongly correlated with hotter and drier wind.” Prof. Bala told CNA’s Asia Now on Monday( Sep 4 ),” At the same time, we also have very little rainfall during El Nino.” & nbsp,

Peatland and foliage fires are more likely to occur as a result of the dry climate, and” transnational smoke cloud, which could alter all of Southeast Asia, including Singapore ,” he added. & nbsp,