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Amazon fires drive spike in child breathing problems in Brazil - study

Reuters
Posted at Oct 03 05:38 AM

Roughly 5,000 children aged 9 or younger were treated each month in May and June in 36 areas within Brazil's so-called "arc of deforestation," the area partially encircling the Amazon where destruction of the forest is the highest, according to a study by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, a public health research institute. Read more »

Nature park sa Negros Occidental, sumiklab ng 1 araw; 5 ektarya nasunog

Marty Go, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 26 07:14 PM

Isang bahagi ng nature park sa Negros Occidental ang nasunog ng isang araw nitong Miyerkoles. Read more »

Indonesian forest fires putting 10 million children at risk: UN

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 25 11:58 PM

Air pollution from Indonesian forest fires is putting nearly 10 million children at risk, the United Nations warned Tuesday, as scientists said the blazes were releasing vast amounts of greenhouse gases. Read more »

Indonesian forest fires putting 10 million children at risk: UN

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 24 04:02 PM

Indonesian forest fires are putting nearly 10 million children at risk from air pollution, the United Nations warned Tuesday, as scientists said the blazes were releasing vast amounts of greenhouse gases.   Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: September 19, 2019

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 20 12:49 AM

Here are the big stories today in photos Read more »

Haze blankets Singapore

Roslan Rahman, AFP
Posted at Sep 19 12:07 PM

Toxic haze from Indonesian forest fires closed thousands of schools across the country and in neighbouring Malaysia while air quality worsened in Singapore. Read more »

Indonesian haze shuts down schools, sparks fears for Singapore F1

Sam Reeves, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 18 04:56 PM

Toxic haze from Indonesian forest fires closed thousands of schools across the country and in neighboring Malaysia Wednesday, while air quality worsened in Singapore just days before the city's Formula One motor race. Read more »

Haze closes Malaysia schools, sparks fears for Singapore F1

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 18 02:38 PM

Malaysia closed more than 1,000 schools nationwide Wednesday and air quality worsened in Singapore days before the city's Formula One race, as toxic haze from Indonesian forest fires engulfed the region. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: September 17, 2019

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 18 12:40 AM

Here are the day's big stories in photos. Read more »

ALAMIN: Epekto ng haze mula Indonesia

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 18 09:36 AM

Umabot na rin sa iba't bang lugar sa Mindanao at Palawan ang haze o usok mula sa forest fires sa Indonesia. Nagbabala ang mga awtoridad sa masamang epekto nito sa kalusugan. Read more »

Hazy days ahead

Lim Huey Teng, Reuters
Posted at Sep 17 10:19 PM

A woman passing in front of the Malaysia’s Prime Minister’s office in Putrajaya, Malaysia on Tuesday covers her face with a scarf because of haze from forest fires. Read more »

Indonesia arrests nearly 200 over raging forest fires

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 17 02:34 PM

Indonesia has arrested nearly 200 people over vast forest fires ripping across the archipelago, police said Monday, as toxic haze sends air quality levels plummeting and sparks flight cancellations. Read more »

Call to action for the Indonesian forest

Wahyudi, AFP
Posted at Sep 17 10:10 AM

A scuffle broke out with police as hundreds of Indonesian students gather to protest outside the office of the Riau Governor in Pekanbaru on Monday, demanding the government to do more to fight the raging forest fires in the region. Read more »

DENR nagbabala sa epekto ng haze mula forest fires sa Indonesia

Jay Dayupay, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 17 03:16 PM

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (UPDATE)—Umabot na sa Davao region at Soccsksargen ang haze mula sa forest fires sa Indonesia, ayon sa Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) ng mga naturang rehiyon. Read more »

Indonesians choked by forest fire haze pray for rain

Dessy Sagita, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 13 08:58 PM

Hundreds held a mass prayer for rain in a smoke-filled Indonesian city on Friday, desperately hoping that downpours will extinguish forest fires and wash away toxic haze covering wide swathes of the country that has forced mass school closures. Read more »

Indonesia blames Malaysian companies for some forest fires

Reuters
Posted at Sep 13 07:10 PM

Indonesia on Friday blamed four Malaysian companies, including the world's biggest producer of sustainable palm oil, for causing some of the forest fires within its borders, in an escalating row between neighbors over regional haze. Read more »

Indonesia forest fires surge, stoke global warming fears

Dessy Sagita, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 12 05:38 PM

The number of blazes in Indonesia's rainforests has jumped sharply, satellite data showed Thursday, spreading smog across Southeast Asia and adding to concerns about the impact of increasing wildfire outbreaks worldwide on global warming. Read more »

Brazil agents raid illegal miners in Amazon as environmental enforcement ratchets up

Pablo Garcia and Nacho Doce, Reuters
Posted at Aug 31 07:37 PM

ALTAMIRA, BRAZIL - Federal agents in Brazil exchanged gunfire with illegal miners in the Amazon state of Para on Friday, according to Reuters witnesses, in a dramatic example of how Brazil has stepped up environmental enforcement in the wake of rainforest fires. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: August 26, 2019

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 27 01:06 AM

Here are the day's big stories in photos. Read more »

A call to save the Amazon

Victor Moriyama, Greenpeace/AFP
Posted at Aug 26 05:16 PM

Handout aerial released by Greenpeace showing smoke billowing from forest fires in the municipality of Candeias do Jamari, close to Porto Velho in Rondonia State, in the Amazon basin in northwestern Brazil, on August 24, 2019. Read more »