Dr. Erik Velasco, of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, made the call during a speech delivered about the nation's most recent smoke haze event at the Nanyang Polytechnic's symposium on Air Quality & Public Health. 

Singapore regularly experiences haze events which are largely contributed to by wildfires in Indonesia, but Velasco says that shipping is a major source of pollutants to the atmosphere in Singapore on days not affected by fires in neighboring islands.

Read Full Article