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Coverage dated September 4, 2026 to September 6, 2026

Haze emergency grips Malaysian Borneo town

Headline from Phys

Acrid smoke hung heavily over the Malaysian town of Serian, seeping into homes and cloaking roadside stalls, as residents navigated an air-quality emergency fueled by transboundary haze from Indonesia's raging fires.

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  1. Philadelphia Inquirer

    Sarawak town chokes as haze pushes air pollution past Malaysia’s emergency threshold (opens Philadelphia Inquirer)

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    Philadelphia Inquirer's feed description

    Air pollution in a town in Malaysia's Sarawak state has breached emergency levels due to haze from forest fires in neighboring Indonesia

  2. Phys

    Malaysia declares haze emergency in Sarawak state on Borneo (opens Phys)

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    Phys's feed description

    Malaysia declared an emergency in the Serian division of its Sarawak state on Borneo after hazardous haze from fires in neighboring Indonesia drove air pollution to critical levels, the Prime Minister's Office said.

  3. Philadelphia Inquirer

    Malaysia declares emergency in Sarawak town as haze reaches critical level (opens Philadelphia Inquirer)

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    Philadelphia Inquirer's feed description

    Malaysia has declared an emergency in a town in Sarawak state due to severe air pollution linked to fires in Indonesia

  4. Al Jazeera

    Malaysia declares emergency in Sarawak as haze from Indonesia worsens (opens Al Jazeera)

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    Al Jazeera's feed description

    Country implements state of emergency in Sarawak's Serian district after air pollution reaches 'hazardous' levels.

  5. Phys

    Haze emergency grips Malaysian Borneo town (opens Phys)

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    Phys's feed description

    Acrid smoke hung heavily over the Malaysian town of Serian, seeping into homes and cloaking roadside stalls, as residents navigated an air-quality emergency fueled by transboundary haze from Indonesia's raging fires.

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