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Indonesia's forest fires feed 'brown cloud' of pollution choking Asia's cities

2014-03-22 15:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: High above the vast Indonesian island of Sumatra, satellites identify hundreds of plumes of smoke drifting over the oil palm plantations and rainforests. They look harmless as the monsoon winds sweep them north and east towards Singapore, Malaysia and deep into Cambodia, Laos and Thailand. But at ground level, south-east Asian cities have been choking for weeks, wreathed in an acrid, stinking blanket of half-burned vegetation mixed with industrial pollution, car exhaust fumes and ash. From Palangkarya...

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