GEORGE TOWN: The aroma of wood smoke hangs over Penang as the air pollutant index of one meteorological station showed that the air pollutant index (API) is at an unhealthy level of 145 at 9am on Monday (April 17).
The Department of Environment air pollutant measurement station in Prai recorded 136 an hour before that and levels were moderate in the 80s and 90s on Sunday .Meanwhile, the World Air Quality Index website independent air pollutant measuring device in Tanjung Bungah recorded a much higher API level of 155, based on a particle size of 2.5 microns.
However, satellites have registered hundreds of hotspots spread across millions of hectares in eastern Myanmar and throughout Laos.
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