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Indonesia to seed clouds, try to put out huge plantation fires
2013-06-21 20:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
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....
Environmental Activists Punished With Jail Time for Riot Against Sugar Plantation
2013-05-17 09:28:20| Sugar Industry News
A South Sumatra court sentenced two environmental activists to seven months in prison for provoking a riot against a sugar plantation, despite a public outcry against the criminalization.
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Filipino rebels storm pineapple plantation; 1 dead
2013-02-20 12:52:37| Food - Topix.net
More than 100 communist guerrillas stormed one of the world's largest pineapple plantations, killing a guard, burning farm equipment and blocking traffic in three southern Philippine towns in their biggest attack this year, officials said Wednesday.
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