The authorities in Malaysian Borneo have been trying to seed clouds to counteract the effects of smoke wafting in from neighboring Indonesia.

A powerful El Niño is fanning what could be Indonesia’s worst fire season in years, one that is also raising fears of a regional health crisis.

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The announcement has sent panic through a community that fled its country’s brutal military rule, civil war, religious persecution or some combination of the three.

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