8:30 a.m. Sunday the 22nd of March: Picture 1 8:30 a.m. Sunday the 22nd of March: Picture 2 8:30 a.m. Sunday the 22nd of March: Picture 3This Page will hopefully link to useful sites for monitoring the current ongoing Haze Situation on Borneo. I also hope to maintain a gallery of pictures of the conditions in and around Bandar Seri Begawan in Brunei.
borneo is burning
we see it in the sky
the dust orange moon at night
the sun
magenta and dull
in the early morning
we see it
hanging
a grey pall
that chokes the day
and we know
that somwhere in the south
borneo is burning
in early morning classrooms
before the noon heat
students write
compositions
on the environment
and the rainforest
and with each drawing of their lungs
breathe in half an acre
and we offer our own burnings
by the side of the road
piles of rubbish
blaze
and grass fires
in every garden
send twists and swirls of smoke
upwards
on warmer draughts
to join the haze
that fills the eyes
to the horizon
i can no longer taste
the burning forest
in my mouth
the smoke has become
the air
it has filled every place
with the knowledge
of borneo
burning
Written September 1997
These are the first pictures I've recieved for the Gallery. They were taken at 8:30 a.m. on Sunday the 22nd of March. As I recieve more pictures I will set up an archive page for older photos and keep the most current pictures here.
8:30 a.m. Sunday the 22nd of March: Picture 1
8:30 a.m. Sunday the 22nd of March: Picture 2
8:30 a.m. Sunday the 22nd of March: Picture 3
These are links which can be useful in tracking the current situation in the SE Asian Region. They have been drawn from an excellent Haze Page kept here on Geocities which has a link Below. I hope the links provided here will give anyone interested a quick reference to the Smoke/Haze crisis.
This is a new link supposedly showing PSI figures for Brunei - though they seem a bit low at times.Brunei PSI
This page provides a map showing the number of 'Hotspots' or pixels of fire visible from the satelite maps.Hotspots
This site provides Satellite photos of Borneo and Sumatra (when Available) and a schematic map showing the extent of the smoke cloud and wind directions. Haze Cloud
This is the recently re-acctivated Singapore Straits Times Haze Page Straits Times Haze Page
This page provides current readings of API (a measure of air pollutants) for MalaysiaAPI Malaysia
This links to a range of Weather Satellite images of the South East Asian Region
S.E.A Weather Maps
This is the Page from which these links were drawn. It has many more sites, a lot of archival material from last years Haze and updated links to current and archived news stories.
HAZE
