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Indonesia fires lead to one new death from worsening air quality

Indonesia authorities struggled on Sunday (October 25) to contain fires started by slash-and-burn agriculture practices while the deteriorating air quality in the region led to at least one new death. Southeast Asia has suffered for years from an annual “haze” caused by forest and peat clearing across Indonesia, which has come under increasing political pressure to stop the problem, but so far to no avail. Fires this year have been helped by drier weather brought […]