Rain brings temporary relief as Southeast Asia battles fires and toxic haze
Rain has offered brief relief from wildfires in Indonesia, but underground peat fires continue to burn

Rain has offered brief relief from wildfires in Indonesia, but underground peat fires continue to burn








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Indonesia battles worst forest fires and toxic haze in 11 years
Trudy is the latest in successive storms that have hit Mexico’s Pacific coast this year.
Thwaites glacier has been losing ice for decades. Now there are concerns of rapidly accelerating loss.
The fast-spreading Norte Fire in Orange County is fuelled by intense warm winds and unseasonably high temperatures.
Roads collapse and hospitals take in water as floods swamp Turkiye’s largest city, shutting schools and halting traffic.

The Devil’s Throat walkway at Iguazu Falls is dismantled as water surged to nearly eight times its average.
Simon caps a Pacific season of record-breaking intensity, as deadly storms wreak havoc from Hawaii to Mexico.












Construction crews were seen trying to block waves entering homes along California’s coast
The Mexican community of Cabo Corrientes faces the risk of a direct hit as the Category 4 storm churns off Jalisco.