The rise of the air purifier industry
nasa warns of worst ever forest fires, environmental disaster, as smoke blankets six countries
by：Yovog
2023-05-22
Smoke billowed from the mud-coal fire in Indonesia, covering six countries.
Image: NASASource: the supplier is the biggest environmental disaster in our region and Australia and cannot avoid being greatly affected by it.
The disgusting smog that has swept through southeast Asia is described as \"crimes against humanity,\" and NASA has warned it is an unprecedented disaster.
For more than two months, huge smoke has been released from the raging forest fires on Indonesia\'s Sumatra island, which have spread to neighboring countries such as Malaysia, Singapore, southern Thailand and Vietnam, Cambodia and the Philippines.
The poisonous yellow cloud is destroying traffic, schools and businesses, causing thousands of people to get sick.
At least 230 major fires and hundreds of hot spots were 22,000-
Powerful fire fighting forces, including Australian experts.
But the fires, some of which were triggered by the deposits of ancient peat, are challenging them, and the most realistic hope is that monsoon rains will douse them.
But this will not happen until next month at the earliest.
A man rode his bicycle through the Singapore Observatory, which was shrouded in smog.
REUTERS/Edgar Soori: Australian Reuters Gaye Thavisin, who has lived in Kaiman for 13 years, said fighting the fire in Indonesia is not like fighting the Australian bushfire.
\"These fires are burning very long, very low, and underground and need to be completely soaked and flooded to put out,\" she told the news . \". com. au.
Thavisin MS said that while many locals hope that monsoon rains will eventually flood them, it is also possible that the weather will last until February.
\"It\'s too bad. . .
We haven\'t had the sun for two and a half months, \"she said.
During this period, Thavisin MS was unable to run her small cruise business, as it was only visible in about 50 to 200 metres.
\"We are now facing bankruptcy because we continue to pay our employees,\" she said . \".
\"The others have just fired.
The fire has been in Indonesia for more than two months.
Source: The boat tour of the supplier has stopped MS.
Source: while Thavisin is MS lucky to be able to stay inside and work in the air-conditioned office, many locals are not so lucky.
\"They live in open houses, they live, work and play in this dense smoke, and I think this smoke has been at a dangerous level since August,\" she said . \".
Despite the tough conditions, people continue to make fires, MS Thavisin said she has discovered three new fires in her area in the past few days.
She said the fire caused by the claim of \"open space\" has been accepted.
\"The way they claim the land is cleared, the way they clean it is through fire,\" she said . \".
With the development of the palm oil industry in the country, this situation has worsened, and the industry provides farmers with incentives to clean up land and grow profitable crops.
Photo by Guy Thavisin fire in Indonesia.
Source: since the 1980 s, there have been supply fires in Indonesia every year, but the situation is different.
The long dry season and the El Nino weather pattern of \"gozier\" make the situation worse, and the devastating effects of this weather pattern are only beginning to manifest now.
Massive weather events this summer are expected to have terrible consequences for Australia, including predictions of the devastating fire season here.
El Nino usually reduces rainfall, causing drought and rising temperatures.
In 1997, Sumatran suffered what was then considered the worst fire on record, an estimated $12 billion.
The current outbreak has been considered to be bigger, and NASA says the terrible weather forecast has made it the worst ever.
\"The situation in Singapore and Southeast Sumatra is close to 1997, and some stations have an average visibility of less than 1 kilometer a week.
In garimantan, visibility is reported to be less than 50 metres, \"said Robert Field, a Columbia University scientist at NASA\'s Goddard Space Institute.
\"If the longer forecast for the dry season remains the same, it shows that 2015 people will be one of the most serious events on record,\" commuters pass through thick smog in Kalimantan.
Indonesia has sent warships on standby to evacuate people affected by the forest fire. A forest fire has killed at least 10 people. (AP Photos)
Source: more than 40 million people, especially those living in Indonesia\'s main islands of Sumatra and Borneo, are exposed to toxic smoke.
More than 500,000 Indonesians seek medical help with smog-related respiratory diseases.
300 km away.
Distance between Sydney and Canberra
For the past two months, the people of Singapore have been keeping their children at home as much as possible.
They gave up an outdoor fitness program like jogging and were used to never seeing the sun in such heavy, immovable smoke, cars parked on the street could not even be seen by high-rise residents
Tower upstairs
\"This is a crime that is very harmful to humanity,\" said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho of the Indonesian disaster agency . \".
\"This is caused by human behavior, because the forest fire was deliberately caused.
\"The crisis has become so bad that Indonesia and other countries, including Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and Japan, are all holding massive prayers for the rain.
Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, is also familiar with the dense and deadly drifting from Sumatra to the Philippines.
A masked woman attended a Sunday mass at the Sion Church in Palangkaraya.
Reuters/Rosa Pang overtime/antara Futo.
Source: Smoke from 1997 fires hanging in the atmosphere of Papua
New Guinea on the northern edge of Australia, the East Coast of Africa, southern India, Vietnam and northern Cambodia.
It is expected that version 2015 will have a greater impact on more countries.
The main centers in Australia are unlikely to be hit, but we are affected by traffic --
The effects of airline flight cancellations, abandonment of sporting events and worsening global warming.
It is believed that the fire was caused by companies and individual farmers deliberately lighting them to illegally clear cheap land.
Prosecution has begun.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo concluded his visit to the United States on Monday and returned home to deal with the crisis.
The skyline of Singapore. . . Source:Reuters. . .
Same scenery on weekends.
REUTERS/Edgar Soori: Reuters \"The public has a lot of complaints about the social and health effects of smog, the state Antara news agency later quoted Joko as saying.
\"So I decided to cancel my trip to the west coast.
Sutopo Nugroho, spokesman for the National Disaster Administration, said: \"11 warships and two passenger ships will be sent to the affected areas as temporary shelters and transported to residents, especially children, to go to the more
Fire caused by slashand-burn farming —
A quick and cheap way to clean up land for new plantations
1 has been destroyed so far.
The area of garimantan and its neighboring Sumatra is 7 million hectares.
Kalimantan authorities blame resources for being limited
Dry conditions make it extremely difficult to control fires, they say.
The head of the provincial conservation agency Nandang Prihadi told AFP that people \"must be patient \".
Noguero, spokesman for the National Disaster Management Agency, said the authorities had set up temporary shelters for vulnerable citizens equipped with air purifiers, but many residents chose to stay at home.
\"They say the sanctuary is far away and they have to work and want to be with their relatives and neighbors,\" he said . \".
The government has deployed about 30 aircraft and 22,000 soldiers to put out the fire.
The iconic twin towers of Malaysia and the skyline of Kuala Lumpur are shrouded in smoke.
AFP Photo/MANAN VATSYAYANASource: \"Fires in Indonesia are not an environmental disaster like most other fires.
\"They are very difficult to extinguish,\" NASA said . \".
And it\'s dirty.
According to the World Resources Research Institute, greenhouse gas emissions from 1997 fires were at least 26 days higher than the average daily emissions of the entire U. S. economy.
According to NASA scientists, in this season alone, the fire released about 0. 6 billion tons of greenhouse gas equivalent to Germany, about the equivalent of Germany\'s annual carbon emissions.
This is because more than half of the fires are believed to have occurred in the peatland area, where the highest amount of carbon is stored on Earth.
The methane released by the mud coal fire may be 10 times more than the fire on other types of land.
\"On the whole, the impact of mud coal fires on global early warning is likely to be more than 200 times larger than fires on other lands,\" the institute said . \".
Endangered animals
Utans have also been the victims of the smog crisis, which has caused them to become ill, malnourished, and have suffered severe wounds as the Indonesian forest fires raged, burning their habitat.
Can\'t see South Kalimantan from the air.
Agence France-Presse photo/Bay ISMOYOSource: AFPRescuers at the center of the great apes on Borneo island are considering the unprecedented large-scale evacuation of hundreds of people they take care of and have deployed a dangerous mission team to search the affected animals in the wild.
\"This year\'s disaster is definitely the worst since 1997,\" Kurniawan said . \" He was referring to the worst disaster --
The smog crisis recorded in history
\"We have never been forced out of Orang --
But these fires are crazy.
\"Kurniawan and his staff at the troubled center are frustrated by the small progress that has been made in the last 20 years of smog outbreaks.
\"Why haven\'t we learned anything? ” he said.
\"Why is this happening all the time?
\"In the worst case, people get free treatment for fresh oxygen at local hospitals --hit areas.
Source: AFP-
Image: NASASource: the supplier is the biggest environmental disaster in our region and Australia and cannot avoid being greatly affected by it.
The disgusting smog that has swept through southeast Asia is described as \"crimes against humanity,\" and NASA has warned it is an unprecedented disaster.
For more than two months, huge smoke has been released from the raging forest fires on Indonesia\'s Sumatra island, which have spread to neighboring countries such as Malaysia, Singapore, southern Thailand and Vietnam, Cambodia and the Philippines.
The poisonous yellow cloud is destroying traffic, schools and businesses, causing thousands of people to get sick.
At least 230 major fires and hundreds of hot spots were 22,000-
Powerful fire fighting forces, including Australian experts.
But the fires, some of which were triggered by the deposits of ancient peat, are challenging them, and the most realistic hope is that monsoon rains will douse them.
But this will not happen until next month at the earliest.
A man rode his bicycle through the Singapore Observatory, which was shrouded in smog.
REUTERS/Edgar Soori: Australian Reuters Gaye Thavisin, who has lived in Kaiman for 13 years, said fighting the fire in Indonesia is not like fighting the Australian bushfire.
\"These fires are burning very long, very low, and underground and need to be completely soaked and flooded to put out,\" she told the news . \". com. au.
Thavisin MS said that while many locals hope that monsoon rains will eventually flood them, it is also possible that the weather will last until February.
\"It\'s too bad. . .
We haven\'t had the sun for two and a half months, \"she said.
During this period, Thavisin MS was unable to run her small cruise business, as it was only visible in about 50 to 200 metres.
\"We are now facing bankruptcy because we continue to pay our employees,\" she said . \".
\"The others have just fired.
The fire has been in Indonesia for more than two months.
Source: The boat tour of the supplier has stopped MS.
Source: while Thavisin is MS lucky to be able to stay inside and work in the air-conditioned office, many locals are not so lucky.
\"They live in open houses, they live, work and play in this dense smoke, and I think this smoke has been at a dangerous level since August,\" she said . \".
Despite the tough conditions, people continue to make fires, MS Thavisin said she has discovered three new fires in her area in the past few days.
She said the fire caused by the claim of \"open space\" has been accepted.
\"The way they claim the land is cleared, the way they clean it is through fire,\" she said . \".
With the development of the palm oil industry in the country, this situation has worsened, and the industry provides farmers with incentives to clean up land and grow profitable crops.
Photo by Guy Thavisin fire in Indonesia.
Source: since the 1980 s, there have been supply fires in Indonesia every year, but the situation is different.
The long dry season and the El Nino weather pattern of \"gozier\" make the situation worse, and the devastating effects of this weather pattern are only beginning to manifest now.
Massive weather events this summer are expected to have terrible consequences for Australia, including predictions of the devastating fire season here.
El Nino usually reduces rainfall, causing drought and rising temperatures.
In 1997, Sumatran suffered what was then considered the worst fire on record, an estimated $12 billion.
The current outbreak has been considered to be bigger, and NASA says the terrible weather forecast has made it the worst ever.
\"The situation in Singapore and Southeast Sumatra is close to 1997, and some stations have an average visibility of less than 1 kilometer a week.
In garimantan, visibility is reported to be less than 50 metres, \"said Robert Field, a Columbia University scientist at NASA\'s Goddard Space Institute.
\"If the longer forecast for the dry season remains the same, it shows that 2015 people will be one of the most serious events on record,\" commuters pass through thick smog in Kalimantan.
Indonesia has sent warships on standby to evacuate people affected by the forest fire. A forest fire has killed at least 10 people. (AP Photos)
Source: more than 40 million people, especially those living in Indonesia\'s main islands of Sumatra and Borneo, are exposed to toxic smoke.
More than 500,000 Indonesians seek medical help with smog-related respiratory diseases.
300 km away.
Distance between Sydney and Canberra
For the past two months, the people of Singapore have been keeping their children at home as much as possible.
They gave up an outdoor fitness program like jogging and were used to never seeing the sun in such heavy, immovable smoke, cars parked on the street could not even be seen by high-rise residents
Tower upstairs
\"This is a crime that is very harmful to humanity,\" said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho of the Indonesian disaster agency . \".
\"This is caused by human behavior, because the forest fire was deliberately caused.
\"The crisis has become so bad that Indonesia and other countries, including Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and Japan, are all holding massive prayers for the rain.
Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, is also familiar with the dense and deadly drifting from Sumatra to the Philippines.
A masked woman attended a Sunday mass at the Sion Church in Palangkaraya.
Reuters/Rosa Pang overtime/antara Futo.
Source: Smoke from 1997 fires hanging in the atmosphere of Papua
New Guinea on the northern edge of Australia, the East Coast of Africa, southern India, Vietnam and northern Cambodia.
It is expected that version 2015 will have a greater impact on more countries.
The main centers in Australia are unlikely to be hit, but we are affected by traffic --
The effects of airline flight cancellations, abandonment of sporting events and worsening global warming.
It is believed that the fire was caused by companies and individual farmers deliberately lighting them to illegally clear cheap land.
Prosecution has begun.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo concluded his visit to the United States on Monday and returned home to deal with the crisis.
The skyline of Singapore. . . Source:Reuters. . .
Same scenery on weekends.
REUTERS/Edgar Soori: Reuters \"The public has a lot of complaints about the social and health effects of smog, the state Antara news agency later quoted Joko as saying.
\"So I decided to cancel my trip to the west coast.
Sutopo Nugroho, spokesman for the National Disaster Administration, said: \"11 warships and two passenger ships will be sent to the affected areas as temporary shelters and transported to residents, especially children, to go to the more
Fire caused by slashand-burn farming —
A quick and cheap way to clean up land for new plantations
1 has been destroyed so far.
The area of garimantan and its neighboring Sumatra is 7 million hectares.
Kalimantan authorities blame resources for being limited
Dry conditions make it extremely difficult to control fires, they say.
The head of the provincial conservation agency Nandang Prihadi told AFP that people \"must be patient \".
Noguero, spokesman for the National Disaster Management Agency, said the authorities had set up temporary shelters for vulnerable citizens equipped with air purifiers, but many residents chose to stay at home.
\"They say the sanctuary is far away and they have to work and want to be with their relatives and neighbors,\" he said . \".
The government has deployed about 30 aircraft and 22,000 soldiers to put out the fire.
The iconic twin towers of Malaysia and the skyline of Kuala Lumpur are shrouded in smoke.
AFP Photo/MANAN VATSYAYANASource: \"Fires in Indonesia are not an environmental disaster like most other fires.
\"They are very difficult to extinguish,\" NASA said . \".
And it\'s dirty.
According to the World Resources Research Institute, greenhouse gas emissions from 1997 fires were at least 26 days higher than the average daily emissions of the entire U. S. economy.
According to NASA scientists, in this season alone, the fire released about 0. 6 billion tons of greenhouse gas equivalent to Germany, about the equivalent of Germany\'s annual carbon emissions.
This is because more than half of the fires are believed to have occurred in the peatland area, where the highest amount of carbon is stored on Earth.
The methane released by the mud coal fire may be 10 times more than the fire on other types of land.
\"On the whole, the impact of mud coal fires on global early warning is likely to be more than 200 times larger than fires on other lands,\" the institute said . \".
Endangered animals
Utans have also been the victims of the smog crisis, which has caused them to become ill, malnourished, and have suffered severe wounds as the Indonesian forest fires raged, burning their habitat.
Can\'t see South Kalimantan from the air.
Agence France-Presse photo/Bay ISMOYOSource: AFPRescuers at the center of the great apes on Borneo island are considering the unprecedented large-scale evacuation of hundreds of people they take care of and have deployed a dangerous mission team to search the affected animals in the wild.
\"This year\'s disaster is definitely the worst since 1997,\" Kurniawan said . \" He was referring to the worst disaster --
The smog crisis recorded in history
\"We have never been forced out of Orang --
But these fires are crazy.
\"Kurniawan and his staff at the troubled center are frustrated by the small progress that has been made in the last 20 years of smog outbreaks.
\"Why haven\'t we learned anything? ” he said.
\"Why is this happening all the time?
\"In the worst case, people get free treatment for fresh oxygen at local hospitals --hit areas.
Source: AFP-
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