Singapore haze: Indonesia makes rain to stop smog
Jun 21, 2013 12:30:12 GMT -5
Post by popcorn on Jun 21, 2013 12:30:12 GMT -5
Singapore haze: Indonesia to make it rain to stop 'life threatening' smog 
Indonesia on Friday deployed helicopters to artificially create rain to fight raging fires that have choked Singapore with smog, which has hit levels posing a potentially deadly threat to the elderly and the ill.
At a late-night emergency meeting, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ordered disaster officials to "immediately mobilise all the country's resources" to extinguish the fires on Sumatra island that have created vast palls of smoke.
Singapore's worst environmental crisis in more than a decade has seen the acrid smoke creep into people's flats and cloak residential blocks as well as downtown skyscrapers, and the island's prime minister has warned it could last weeks.
read more:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/singapore/10133948/Singapore-haze-Indonesia-to-make-it-rain-to-stop-life-threatening-smog.html
Indonesia on Friday deployed helicopters to artificially create rain to fight raging fires that have choked Singapore with smog, which has hit levels posing a potentially deadly threat to the elderly and the ill.
At a late-night emergency meeting, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ordered disaster officials to "immediately mobilise all the country's resources" to extinguish the fires on Sumatra island that have created vast palls of smoke.
Singapore's worst environmental crisis in more than a decade has seen the acrid smoke creep into people's flats and cloak residential blocks as well as downtown skyscrapers, and the island's prime minister has warned it could last weeks.
read more:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/singapore/10133948/Singapore-haze-Indonesia-to-make-it-rain-to-stop-life-threatening-smog.html