Discussion on environmental impact of forest fires.
HELP! about HAZE
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hi,
first of all i'm a student of pre-university programme
and i'm doing a project about haze in indonesia,singapore, and malaysia
i would like to ask for help!
anyone can give me statistic about the haze/air pollution on those countries...
and also any website deal with haze in those country..
thank's for attention
looking foward for your reply...
ps: take care!
I am doing a similar research like u with the exception that i only have to concentrate on Malaysia.I am sure, by now, u would have a lot of details but if u wish,we can share information.I can email u.Email me to let me know whether or not u are interested
I am also doing a presentation and a research topic on Haze in our region, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, looking more on the environmental aspect and its effects on health.
If you don't mind, would like to share any informatino that you might have as well.
nice to meet you...i am a student in perak and i'm studying about this current issue...
i would like to know more detailed about the cause and ways to overcome this problem...
what did you found so far....??
The Causes and Effects of Air Pollution in Malaysia
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hello,
my name is david sii here.. i'm studying at curtin univeristy of technology, miri sarwak, malaysia..
i'm in foundation commerce course..
and i would like to know more information about the air pollution in malaysia.. the problem of haze also can ....
can u help me?
thanks !~!~
Dan and his group are to be congratulated on setting up this valuable resource. Spend a month in there as you would at regular work and you can become an expert in no time flat.
To find wildfire all in one place, go to www.egroups.com and take out a membership in "emergency01". Then check out the archives and even make contributions. Be forewarned, there is a lot of Spanish there as it is a Peruvian promotion.
Nothing can substitute for local tracking and local contrbutions to this valuable database. This one is crosslinked to www.waterbomber.com and has been since its inception.
My best suggestion to those affected by the HAZE this time is to write in to the G-8 Summit.
It is symptomatic of our general lack of a civil global society that while the tools to deal with this menace are available, they are not being sought out.
Thinks AIDS and Africa and we're on the same page.
keep up the good work doe....you don't tell the public a thing....keep saying everything is alright especially when my throat itches and my nose is running...your website is the only one that doesn't provide API readings.....what more when malaysia is the one really affected by the haze.....and visibility is barely a kilometre !!
why not MALAYSIA boLEH !!!!!
,,....KILLING US SOFTLY WITHOUT INFORMATION
sneeze..sneeze
DEAR SANGY, YOU ARE NOT GOING TO DIE. IF SO, THE DOE PEOPLE WILL BE THE FIRST! WHY? THEY ARE THE PEOPLE RUNNING ALL OVER TO CURB THE OPEN BURNING DONE BY PEOPLE LIKE YOU!
HI STEVE!
WOW, 300 IS MUCH TOO HIGH DON'T YOU THINK SO? IF SO THE PRIME MINISTER WOULD TALK ABOUT IT EVERY MINUTE THROUGH THE TUBE!
BE REASONABLE WILL YOU!
ANYWAY I'M NOT GOING BACK TO ANY KAMPONG (KL IS NOT ONE, I THINK).
WELL, GUESSING ABOUT THE API INDEX READING IS NOT THAT IMPORTANT DON'T YOU THINK?
FINDING WAYS TO TEACH THE PUBLIC TO STOP THE ACTIVITIES WHICH WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE RISING OFF THE INDEX WOULD BE MORE SIGNIFICANT, OR MAY BE YOU HAVE ANY OTHER INTELLIGENT SUGGESTION OTHER THAN COMPLAINING...
WHY DON'T YOU SIT BACK AND THINK ABOUT IT...
Can u tell me chemical formula for haze?
can u also tell me whether where do u get 'e report bout haze in south east asia?if it is from a newspaper, tell me 'e date of the newspaper n which month n year.thanks
Isn't it of major concern that its getting hot and hazy nowadays? The current haze seems to be getting less publicity as compared to some political changes in this country.
DEAR FRANCIS,
IT'S NOTHING NEW ABOUT HAZE. IT WILL COME BACK EACH YEAR TO HAUNT OUR AGEING WORLD IF WE REFUSE TO BE MORE RESPONSIBLE IN CARING FOR OUR ENVIRONMENT. FOR THE BEGINNING, STOP OPEN BURNING ACTIVITIES. ASK YOU LOCAL AUTHORITIES TO COLLECT YOU RUBBISH/DOMESTIC WASTE/GARDEN WASTE EVERYDAY/EFFECTIVELY AND DUMP AT THE GAZZETTED DUMP SITE. START RECYCLING AND REUSE WHERE YOU CAN... SAVE OUR ENVIRONMENT FOR YOU, ME AND THE FUTURE...
First, I want to thank you and Ivan Anderson for giving me response to my quetions in haze forum but I am still waiting for your promised next answers on other related pollutants. Instead of giving you more burdens to look back to my first e-mail, I would better copy the unanswered questions below :
My boss also asked me to search for other smog/haze indicators. Do you
> think that the six key pollutants (NOx,CO, Lead, VOC, PM - 10 and SO2) are
> representative so far? How can I get the daily data of each from?
> Is there any relationship pattern among those?
I also don't understand about the way/formula by which the pollutant standard index is calculated. This is really important to me because this can be a good start for me from which I can understand what parameters are involved and how the other pollutants (that I mentioned above) contribute to those PSI numbers.
I got the article on API calculation from Hongkong Department of Health website
> but I still couldn't find the relationship pattern among those pollutants
> I could't understand the interpretation in the field "Relationship with the AQO (Air Quality Objectives"
> I don't understand why concentration of one pollutant is measured by 24-h whilst the others are by 24-h and 1-h or 8-h and 1-h or only 1-h?
> What is API/PSI sub-index?
Sorry for asking many questions but I think it maybe very useful for to get your response. Thank you very much for giving your time for me.
1) What is the main thing that might be effected in Malaysia by air pollution?
2) why research on air pollution is very important?
3) why air pollution is important issue to an organisation?
4) what is the issue on air pollution that will face by malaysia?
hi i am a college student .i want to do a project about the air pollution in malaysia please send some information about the air pollution in malaysia thank you ur kind help
A couple of us here in Jakarta have been trying to get a totally integrated forest clean-up programme started here involving forestry companies, be they normal logging or plantation, unions and forest communities involved in this clean-up project. The idea is to remove the felling waste (which is a perpetual fire hazard) either by chipping, char-ing, sawing-up any suitable logs in preparation for the next planting. The concept would attenuate current friction between the forest community and the forestry companies and at the same time remove fire hazardous waste putting it to some commercial use.
We have most of the equipment donated but we need funding to kick off the pilot project. We firmly believe that the concept is highly repeatable throughout Indonesia and from our initial number crunching with be commercially viable.
Some time ago we approached AusAid and received only courteous disinterest. We have talked to the World Bank in Jakarta who showed a little more interest.
Has any one out there in the ulu got any good ideas on who to approach for funding????
I would like to hear from you about the possible solutions to and causes of the fuel buildup problems in Indonesia. We have in Northern Minnesota USA 500,000 acres of 100% blown down trees. Multiple millions of trees snapped off anywhere from 5 to 50 feet above ground - some tangled piles reaching 50 feet deep. Bark beetles have infested the forest and by next year there is a threat of an increase of 50% more dead timber.
Removal of fuel build up seeems to be the only solution. Any help you could be in providing information on your experience in challenging this problem would be helpful.
I have some close contact with at least one U.S. Senator. The entire committee of the US Senate dealing with forests will be here in Minnesota on July 7th to investigate this issue.
It's interesting to read about your initiative. I am not totally surprised by the desinterest that you came across. The donor community by and large waits for the fires to return only then to throw more money at the flames.
On the other hand, I am not too sure that removing debris is the solution. There are well tested zero-burning techniques. These are economically viable in Malaysia, but not in Indonesia. So, the companies have more interest in just burning the lot. Quick, cheap and dirty.
Over the last few years I have been doing research into who is funding these fires. It so turns out that many European, US and Asian banks are financing Indonesia's plantation company expansion plans!
Ironically, these banks are often based in Singapore, so in the end, the financial staff there gets what it provides the money for.
In short, you might want to try HSBC in Singapore, or some other well known bank, Citicorp or any other: most of them are funding Sinar Mas, Raja Garuda Mas, Astra etc. etc.
The chances of success (of raising funds) may be limited, but by contacting these banks with the story you might actually help prevent forest fires too, on the somewhat longer run,
