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Smoke over Sumatra: Why Indonesia's fires are a global concern
2013-06-26 17:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: During the smoky season, or musim kabut as it is called in Indonesia, skeletons of leaves fall from the sky and disintegrate like melting snowflakes in childrens hands. Historically, Indonesias smoky season has peaked at the end of the dry season (September-October), just before the monsoon rains arrive. This year the dry season just began, and yet Singapores PSI (Pollutant Standard Index) record has already been broken reaching a new high of 401 (Hazardous) on June 21, 2013. The air pollution...
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Beetles to blame for Colorado's fires? Blame climate change instead
2013-06-24 23:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NBC: Tiny, winged bark beetles have been the ecological bad guys of the West for more than a decade, and rightfully so. They've killed off millions of acres' worth of trees in Colorado. Now all those dead trees are feeding the flames across tens of thousands of acres in the southern part of the state. The West Fork Complex fire raging through southwest Colorado has already burned through more than 75,000 acres, including wide stretches of tinder-dry trees hit by beetle damage. With 600 people evacuated...
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Greenpeace releases dramatic pictures of haze and fires in Indonesia
2013-06-24 19:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Greenpeace has released a series of photos from the front lines of the peat fires that are casting a pall of haze and triggering health warnings across Singapore and Malaysia. The images were taken by Getty photographer Ulet Infansasti in Sumatra, where the fires are burning. Greenpeace also released photographs taken by Ferina Natasya in Singapore, where the haze is causing record air pollution. Analysis of NASA hotspot data has revealed that the majority of fires are occurring within plantation...
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Malaysian-owned companies source of forest fires
2013-06-24 14:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Free Malaysia: Preliminary investigations have singled out eight plantation companies owned by Malaysian investors as the source of forest fires in Riau that have caused Southeast Asias worst ever air pollution crisis. The Jakarta Post reports the fires have started a diplomatic war of words between Indonesia, as the source of the problem, and Singapore and Malaysia, as the countries receiving the brunt of the smog. Environment Minister Balthasar Kambuaya suggested on Saturday that the eight palm-oil companies...
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Indonesia drops water bombs on fires, may resort to cloud-seeding
2013-06-22 23:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: In an effort to control peat fires casting a pall of haze over neighboring Singapore and Malaysia, Indonesia is using airplanes to drop water across hotspots in Riau Province on the island of Sumatra, reports AFP. Officials say they may try cloud-seeding - dumping silver iodide at high altitude - if current fire-fighting efforts fall short. The fires are a growing source of tension between Indonesia and its neighbors. The Indonesian minister in charge of handling the fires, fanned the diplomatic...
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