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Indonesia: Wind, not big increase in forest fires, driving haze in Singapore
2013-06-26 17:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Wind patterns, rather than a sharp increase in fires, is to blame for the record setting air pollution affecting Singapore and Malaysia, finds new analysis by the World Resources Institute (WRI). WRI looked at hotspot data from NASA over the past 12 years and found that while there have been an unusually high number of fire alerts this year and bigger factor in causing the headline haze over Singapore has been wind patterns that push smoke directly over the island city-state. "While historic...
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