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Adrianna Tan@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io (2026-09-29 08:32:39)
In California we get wildfires. In Singapore we get poor air quality blown over the sea from a neighboring country.
(To be clear, from Singapore-listed resources companies that are exploiting the hell out of the environment in Indonesia and elsewhere. All of this is related to palm oil)
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/haze-in-spore-air-quality-worsens-as-psi-hits-unhealthy-range-in-central-eastern-and-western-regions
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Adrianna Tan@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io (2026-09-29 08:43:01)
“The Nusantara Atlas project, which uses satellite monitoring, estimates nearly 896,000 hectares — over five times the size of Greater London — had burned by the end of August.”
“El Nino isn’t actually the cause, but it’s a trigger. There still needs to be an ignitor,” IPB University forestry lecturer Ati Dwi Nurhayati told AFP.
“We know that in peatlands, almost 100 per cent (of the fires) was caused by human activity.”
Peat ecosystems are dense layers of partially decomposed organic materials that are normally waterlogged. But in much of Indonesia they have been dried out so the land can be planted. This created highly flammable regions.
Once peat catches fire, it can smoulder and reignite for days, making firefighting efforts complex.
In the first eight months of this year, over 212,000 hotspots have been detected inside peat ecosystems across the country, according to NGO Pantau Gambut.”
https://www.malaymail.com/news/world/2026/09/29/what-we-know-about-the-wildfires-choking-indonesia-fuelling-regional-haze-across-malaysia-and-singapore/236918