Indonesian fires worst ever man-made environmental disaster

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An associate professor at the
 University of Queensland,
Erik Meijaard - appalling human
suffering.

 conservation scientist has described an acrid haze choking parts of South-east Asia as one of the worst ever man-made environmental disasters, saying that it is affecting about 40 million people.

Eric Meijaard, an associate professor at the University of Queensland, warns the pollution levels of toxic carbon monoxide and ground-level ozone are "presently off the scale".

Read Lindsay Murdoch’s story in today’s Melbourne Age - “Disaster has put Indonesia top of carbon emissions charts - above even US".