Air Pollution Pro Ject
Air pollution
Name: Sean Lim
Class: 1E
HAZE IN MALAYSIA
KUALA LUMPUR — The haze situation in Malaysia has improved significantly as air pollutant index (API) levels drop in Port Klang and in other areas in Selangor as well as in Perak.
The highest API for the 7am reading today (June 26) is 148 at Nilai in Negeri Sembilan.
Port Klang’s API dropped from the hazardous levels of 487 yesterday to 140 this morning. Meanwhile, Kuala Lumpur’s API reading stands at 100 and Petaling Jaya in Selangor now has an API of 111.
The air quality has improved in Perak after smoke from fires in Indonesia had smothered several towns yesterday when Seri Manjung had a hazardous API of 333. The district’s API is now 137.
Meanwhile, in Negeri Sembilan and Malacca, the smoke is still present. As for Johor, the worst of the haze appears to have left with most areas now registering a moderate API.
The Department of Environment now releases an hourly API reading that showed levels dropping in many places after 2am this morning.
Currently 13 areas have been identified as unhealthy and 35 as moderate, across the country. This is a marked improvement from yesterday’s 7am reading that indicated one hazardous location, five very unhealthy areas, 19 unhealthy locations and 25 moderate spots.
In a latest development, the Malaysian Health Ministry plans to push for the Cabinet to lower the API trigger that automatically closes schools.
The Education Ministry director-general Ghafar Mahmud had issued a directive on Monday ordering schools with APIs over 300 to close while Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said that parents have the option to not send their children to school due to the haze.
Over in Jakarta, the Indonesian government announced yesterday that it was dispatching disaster officials to Riau and will have a total of 5,300 rescue personnel on the ground combatting the forest fires. THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER
Haze in Singapore
Clear
Name: Sean Lim
Class: 1E
HAZE IN MALAYSIA
KUALA LUMPUR — The haze situation in Malaysia has improved significantly as air pollutant index (API) levels drop in Port Klang and in other areas in Selangor as well as in Perak.
The highest API for the 7am reading today (June 26) is 148 at Nilai in Negeri Sembilan.
Port Klang’s API dropped from the hazardous levels of 487 yesterday to 140 this morning. Meanwhile, Kuala Lumpur’s API reading stands at 100 and Petaling Jaya in Selangor now has an API of 111.
The air quality has improved in Perak after smoke from fires in Indonesia had smothered several towns yesterday when Seri Manjung had a hazardous API of 333. The district’s API is now 137.
Meanwhile, in Negeri Sembilan and Malacca, the smoke is still present. As for Johor, the worst of the haze appears to have left with most areas now registering a moderate API.
The Department of Environment now releases an hourly API reading that showed levels dropping in many places after 2am this morning.
Currently 13 areas have been identified as unhealthy and 35 as moderate, across the country. This is a marked improvement from yesterday’s 7am reading that indicated one hazardous location, five very unhealthy areas, 19 unhealthy locations and 25 moderate spots.
In a latest development, the Malaysian Health Ministry plans to push for the Cabinet to lower the API trigger that automatically closes schools.
The Education Ministry director-general Ghafar Mahmud had issued a directive on Monday ordering schools with APIs over 300 to close while Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said that parents have the option to not send their children to school due to the haze.
Over in Jakarta, the Indonesian government announced yesterday that it was dispatching disaster officials to Riau and will have a total of 5,300 rescue personnel on the ground combatting the forest fires. THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER
Haze in Singapore
Clear