
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.











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