‘Like smoking a cigarette’: Indonesia chokes on haze as blazes intensify amid super ‘El Niño’

<p>In Indonesia’s Kalimantan, fires have ravaged tens of thousands of acres, with suffocating smoke reaching Malaysia and putting Singapore on alert</p><p>Suwadi can barely see five metres in front of him when he steps outside his home in Indonesian Borneo.</p><p>Each breath, he says, feels “like smoking a cigarette”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/25/indonesia-wildfires-kalimantan-smoke-super-el-nino">Continue reading...</a>