El Niño fuels Indonesia’s forest fires as regional haze spreads
El Niño-driven blazes are sweeping across Indonesia’s Kalimantan and Sumatra, destroying forests and peatlands, forcing wildlife evacuations and triggering smoke that has reached Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines. About 94,000 hectares burned in July, with rain unlikely to quell blazes until November and the government mobilizing resources as arrests rise for intentional land burning.