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64 dead in Indonesia landslides as La Nina brings heavy rains
2016-06-27 21:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Last year, an extended dry season brought on by El Nino set the stage for one of the worst natural disasters Indonesia has seen, the devastating forest and peatland fires that burned an area the size of Macedonia. This year, an extra-wet dry season brought on by La Nina is bringing calamity in a different form: floods and landslides. At least 64 people were killed this month in landslides and flash floods and thousands more were displaced, the nations disaster management chief, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho,...
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