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Indonesia says forest fires could be back in weeks

2015-11-13 11:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Indonesia's forest fires, which this year sent vast plumes of smoke across the region described by climate officials as a "crime against humanity", could return as early as February, the forestry minister said on Friday, but on not such a large scale. Slash-and-burn agriculture, much of it clearing land for palm oil crops, blanketed Singapore, Malaysia and northern Indonesia in a choking "haze" for months, pushing up pollution levels and disrupting flights, as it does every year. But this year...

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Forest City strikes sale deals for military housing, other real estate; no news on Cleveland assets

2015-11-05 11:43:12| Real Estate - Topix.net

Forest City Enterprises, Inc. has struck deals to sell off more real estate, including its military-housing properties and a New York development site, as the company prepares to change its corporate structure early next year. The publicly traded business, based in Cleveland, updated analysts and investors on pending property sales during a Wednesday conference call to discuss its third-quarter financial results.

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Indonesia's forest fires: living under a yellow haze in pictures

2015-11-02 13:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: On Borneo island members of the indigenous community live on the banks of Kapuas river in Sei Ahass village, where the haze was particularly bad. The forest and peat fires fanned by a prolonged dry season and the impact of El Nio have had devastating health impacts for Indonesia and its south-east Asian neighbours as well as the global climate.

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Raging Amazon Forest Fire Menaces Uncontacted Tribe

2015-11-02 08:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Environment News Service: A stubborn forest fire in the Brazilian Amazon is threatening to consume the forest home of one of the last remaining uncontacted tribes on Earth the awá-Awá. Despite the efforts of 200 volunteers from the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, IBAMA, the flames have devastated at least 35 percent of the 1,594 square mile area in Brazils northeastern state of Maranhao. About 12,000 ethnic indigenous Guajajara and some 80 awá-Awá, also known as Awá-Guaja, call...

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Indonesia's forest fires take toll on wildlife, big and small

2015-11-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: A disoriented, pregnant orangutan, her treetop home in Indonesian Borneo reduced to charred wood, is rushed to a rehabilitation center by conservationists, who dodged walls of fire and toxic smoke. Veterinarians care for 16 abandoned baby orangutans already living at the center. The babies had developed respiratory infections because of haze from the fire, delaying the conservationists continuing attempts to teach them how to live on their own in the wild. Long-awaited heavy rains this week in...

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