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With haze threatening return, Indonesian forestry giant pushes peatlands restoration model
2016-02-04 13:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Last year some two million hectares of land in Indonesia went up in flames across Sumatra, Borneo, and the Western half of New Guinea. The conflagrations caused choking air pollution, hospitalizing hundreds of thousands of people and further denting regional economies already hard hit by the downturn in commodity prices. Daily carbon emissions from the fires during the height of the crisis were higher than the daily emissions from the entire U.S. economy. Most of the haze was caused by fires burning...
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