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Written by Gareth Roberts and Martin Wooster/The Conversation Right now, people in parts of Indonesia are inhaling what may be the most polluted atmosphere on Earth. As the historically large 2026 El Niño intensifies, parts of southeast Asia have been plunged into an air quality crisis of catastrophic proportions. Smoke from fires has driven concentrations […]

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