Land-Clearing Fires Pollute Air in the West
From Times Wire Reports
Smoke and ash from land-clearing fires in Indonesia blanketed a large swath of the country’s west, sending air quality levels plummeting there and in neighboring Singapore and Malaysia, officials said.
The smoke shrouded an estimated 215,000 square miles on the Indonesian island of Sumatra and on Borneo, forcing many residents to wear masks and delaying flights, officials and media reports said.
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