{"id":803997,"date":"2026-10-16T01:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T01:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/803997\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T01:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T01:56:12","slug":"south-east-asia-continues-to-battle-toxic-smog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/803997\/","title":{"rendered":"South East Asia continues to battle toxic smog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fires have been burning in parts of Borneo and Sumatra for the past few weeks and are affecting neighbouring countries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s one of the worst fire seasons Indonesia has seen since 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The air quality across South East Asia is poor due to the smog with parts of Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore experiencing unhealthy levels of pollution. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To keep safe, families in some areas are being asked to their children indoors to play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Authorities are trialling use of dry ice &#8211; the cloudy stuff you&#8217;d might see at a school disco &#8211; to target the haze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The idea is that the dry ice helps break down the smog and helps it rise further up into the atmosphere and away from people. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fires have been burning in parts of Borneo and Sumatra for the past few weeks and are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-803997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}