An Indonesian province on the easterly side of Sumatra looked more like Mars over the weekend than a tropical island paradise . Why ? Forest fires are trounce throughout the country , plough skies crimson .

Ini sore bukan malam . Ini bumi bukan major planet Mar . Ini jambi bukan di luar angkasa . Ini kami yang bernafas dengan paru - paru , bukannya dengan insang . Kami ini manusia butuh udara yang bersih , bukan penuh asap . Lokasi : Kumpeh , Muaro Jambi#KabutAsap#KebakaranHutanMakinMenggilapic.twitter.com / ZwGMVhItwi

— Zuni | Justice will endure ( @zunishofiyn)September 21 , 2019

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More than 4,000 hot spot had been sag in Indonesiaas of last week , and the fire have gotten so spoilt thatschools and airport were closedto protect resident physician from the harmful health effects that could result from take a breath in the filthy crock . Farmers set fire at this time of year to open country for crops and farm animal , accord to NASA .

Massive forest fires can frequently turn skies red , and the ground is quite simple . Richard Fitzpatrick , a physics prof at the University of Texas at Austin , separate Earther that roll of tobacco and other particle scatter disconsolate sparkle more than red light because puritanical light has a higher frequency than red . So instead of regard our usual puritanical sky , we see cherry . The effect is called Rayleigh scatter .

This is not an instagram filter . THIS IS INDONESIA AT 1 PM.the sky turns red , due to the smog . school are all closed in . we miss seeing the sky in low ! ! ! !

Argentina’s President Javier Milei (left) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., holding a chainsaw in a photo posted to Kennedy’s X account on May 27. 2025.

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— ꪔ̤̮ 공주 ( @shinhaerin20)September 23 , 2019

“ It ’s the same phenomenon that causes the skies around the sun to turn red , ” Fitzpatrick secern Earther . “ It ’s a result of the interaction of the light with the fastball particles . ”

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But while the images may be otherworldly , the impact can be dreadful for human health . Particulate matter can lodge itself into the lung , causing wrong . It can eventually feign a person ’s heart , too .

Wildfires have been seemingly everywhere this year fromthe Amazon Rainforestand tothe Arctic . These images are a reminder of yet another part of the world alight . I ca n’t speak for the rest of you , but I ’ll take blue sky over red any day . give thanks you very much .

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