Indonesia to drop 1.5 tons of dry ice to ease toxic haze

Indonesia planned to drop 1.5 tons of dry ice, frozen carbon dioxide, from a Cessna plane over Palembang city in South Sumatra on Thursday to ease smoke and improve air quality. Security minister Dudung Abdurachman said the trial, ordered by the president, follows cloud seeding and water bombing as fires burned almost 900,000 hectares since January.