How Land-Use Change Is Driving Southeast Asia’s Air Quality Crisis — and Why Malaysia Should Be Paying Attention
A new study from Nanyang Technological University, published this month in The Lancet Planetary Health, attaches some uncomfortable numbers to a problem Southeast Asia has been living with for two decades. The way land is being used across the region — clearing forests, expanding cropland, and growing cities — has measurably degraded air quality, and…
