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Indonesia Wildfires Drive Decade Worst Southeast Asia Haze

Southeast Asia is sitting under the worst haze in a decade. Fires on Borneo and Sumatra have already burned more than 200,000 hectares this year, pushing toxic air across Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines. The weather is an amplifier, not the match: a strong El Nino dried the peat, and people still light the fires.

Tibet Nepal Flood Exposes Himalayan Forecasting Limits

The catastrophic Tibet Nepal flood on August 26 exposes a hard scientific problem: observing a hazard is not the same as predicting it. More than 500 people were reported dead and over 2,000 missing, yet the physical chain behind a Himalayan flash flood can remain uncertain even after the water has passed.

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