As smog from Indonesia's sprawling forest fires chokes neighboring Malaysia, authorities there have distributed 2 million face masks to students in affected areas, state news agency Bernama reports
More than 500,000 masks were sent to students in Sarawak in East Malaysia, where air quality on Thursday peaked at 273 micrograms of fine particulate matter per cubic meter of air, deemed"very unhealthy," according to the Air Pollutant Index of Malaysia.Forest fires in neighboring Kalimantan, Indonesia, caused the significant decline in air quality, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail told state media. "We cannot control the source.
Indonesian forest fire season is in full swingThe blazes in Indonesia occur annually. Paper and palm oil plantations farm their crop in the rich peatlands of the Sumatran coast and the island of Borneo.Every year, the farmland is dried out and burned to prepare for the following year's crop and to clear forests. Peat, dry and rich in carbon, can burn for weeks. At its peak, air pollution in Indonesia has reached levels as high as 1,000.
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