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Another year of fires, another year of inaction

Erik Meijaard 6 Jun 2014

Singapore: companies must accept responsibility in addressing haze crisis

Mongabay.com 29 May 2014

Indonesia’s haze from forest fires kills 110,000 people per year

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 May 2014

India, not China, has the world’s worst urban air pollution

Jeremy Hance 12 May 2014

Logging giant suspends operations to fend off plantations from fires

Mongabay.com 15 Mar 2014

Sumatra on fire: burning spikes in Indonesia

Mongabay.com 13 Mar 2014

NASA photo reveals ongoing haze problem in Sumatra

Mongabay.com 1 Mar 2014

Emissions outsourced to China return to U.S. in form of air pollution

Mongabay.com 20 Jan 2014

Bangladesh plans massive coal plant in world’s biggest mangrove forest

Jeremy Hance 11 Nov 2013

Shanghai to ban coal by 2017

Jeremy Hance 28 Oct 2013

WHO: air pollution causes cancer

Sarah Boseley 17 Oct 2013

June fires concentrated in peatlands, burned 1,500 sq km in Sumatra

Mongabay.com 16 Oct 2013

China punishes top oil companies for failing to clean up their acts

Jeremy Hance 3 Sep 2013

500 fires rage across Sumatra

Mongabay.com 29 Aug 2013

China pledges $275 billion over 5 years to cut record air pollution

Jeremy Hance 19 Aug 2013

Haze summit proposes sharing concession data, but keeping it hidden from the public

Mongabay.com 17 Jul 2013

Palm oil body, Greenpeace spar over Indonesia fire blame

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Jul 2013

Palm oil lobby group misleads on origin of haze, fires

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Jul 2013

Chinese lose 2.5 billion years of life expectancy due to coal burning

Mongabay.com 8 Jul 2013

Indonesia to spend $10M on cloud-seeding scheme to slow haze

Mongabay.com 27 Jun 2013

Wind, not big increase in forest fires, driving haze in Singapore

Mongabay.com 26 Jun 2013

Palm oil companies linked to haze see share prices drop

Mongabay.com 24 Jun 2013

Indonesia drops water bombs on fires, may resort to cloud-seeding

Mongabay.com 22 Jun 2013

Singapore air pollution hits worst level on record, government blames palm oil and timber plantations in Sumatra

Mongabay.com 21 Jun 2013

Mining in Indonesia taking a heavy social, environmental toll

Anne Usher 3 Jun 2013

Citizen group finds 30 toxic chemicals in air following tar sands oil spill in Arkansas

Jeremy Hance 30 Apr 2013

With addition of smog, trees may generate air pollution

Mongabay.com 26 Apr 2013

Air pollution killed 7 million people in 2010

Jeremy Hance 9 Apr 2013

China delays carbon tax

Mongabay.com 7 Mar 2013

Nitrogen pollution in China increased 60% annually between 1980 and 2010

Mongabay.com 25 Feb 2013

Indonesian fires trigger haze alerts in Malaysia

Mongabay.com 24 Jun 2012

Direct air capture of CO2 to fight global warming is too expensive to be feasible

Mongabay.com 9 Dec 2011

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