How to Clear Away the Haze Suffocating Southeast Asia

KUALA LUMPUR -- Even for a region that has gotten used to choking haze, the severity of Southeast Asia's current air pollution crisis is unprecedented. Forest fires in Borneo and Sumatra have created a thick cloud of smoke that hangs over Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, and even stretches to Vietnam and the Philippines. These are the worst fires in almost 20 years and perhaps, if NASA's predictions are accurate, the worst in recorded history. Fires have even been seen on the typically calm is...