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Indonesia's burning question

2013-08-11 22:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Al Jazeera: Corruption and intimidation are being blamed by environmentalists for the choking smog that characterises the dry season on Indonesia's Sumatra island. Campaigners say that illegal slash-and-burn clearance by large corporations is causing rampant deforestation but persists because of widespread corruption among local officials. The dry season inaugurates a period of intense activity for Indonesia's fire investigators, as large corporations and smallholders allegedly begin illegally burning their...

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Burning Question: How Will Climate Change Impact Western Wildfires?

2013-07-03 22:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

LiveScience: Climate change will dramatically alter wildfire patterns in the western United States before the century ends, studies show. Experts are reluctant to paint a broad picture of future fire risk because fires vary so drastically among regions -- a forest fire in high-elevation Colorado, for example, is vastly different than coastal, chaparral-fed flames in California. But many fire scientists agree the doomsday scenario of massive fires that wreak death and destruction can be quashed through smarter...

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