Malaysia has offered to assist Indonesia in combating forest and land fires that have fueled the latest wave of transboundary haze, including by conducting cloud-seeding operations in Indonesian airspace, as worsening conditions put pressure on Jakarta to step up its response.

The Malaysian prime minister and the Brunei sultan aim to use “the ASEAN mechanism” in a bid to find a solution for the recurring problem of transboundary haze from Indonesian…

Indonesia has intensified ground and aerial firefighting operations Monday as forest and peatland fires fueled by El Nino-driven drought and a prolonged dry season scorched tens…