Grist: Record-breaking air pollution caused by peatland fires in Sumatra has Malaysians and Singaporeans locked indoors - and Indonesia today plans to try an unconventional approach to tackling the flames.
The Indonesians will dump chemicals from aircraft high above smoldering palm plantations in hopes of changing the weather. The goal is to seed clouds and force them to rain their moisture out over the stubborn conflagrations, which were triggered by slash-and-burn forest-clearing by the palm oil industry....