CHIANG RAI, Thailand -- With leaf blowers, rakes and machetes in hand, a line of firefighters bushwhacked into the thickly forested hills of northern Thailand, conducting their final fire patrol of this year's dry season.
A deliberately set fire burns through farmland on the Thai-Cambodia border. Crop-burning to clear land for the next planting cycle is a major contributor to haze across the Mekong Basin. (Photo by Anton L. Delgado)
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