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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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Indonesia: Cristiano Ronaldo in Bali to support mangrove preservation video
2013-06-26 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Real Madrid and Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo plants a mangrove tree in Bali, Indonesia on Wednesday to show his support for mangrove preservation. Ronaldo is currently on the Indonesian island of Bali as an ambassador for the Mangrove Care Forum. Fast disappearing mangrove swamps provide crucial protection for coastal areas and Ronaldo says he became involved in preservation efforts after seeing the devastating effects of the 2004 tsunami
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Indonesia president apologizes for Southeast Asia smog
2013-06-25 02:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Indonesia's president has apologized for the raging forest fires that have blanketed its neighbors Singapore and Malaysia with thick smog in Southeast Asia's worst air pollution crisis in 16 years. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Indonesia was doing everything it could to contain the fires on the island of Sumatra, including the deployment of military aircraft to waterbomb the blazes, and has earmarked around 200 billion rupiah ($20 million) to handle the disaster. The week-long environmental...
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Greenpeace releases dramatic pictures of haze and fires in Indonesia
2013-06-24 19:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Greenpeace has released a series of photos from the front lines of the peat fires that are casting a pall of haze and triggering health warnings across Singapore and Malaysia. The images were taken by Getty photographer Ulet Infansasti in Sumatra, where the fires are burning. Greenpeace also released photographs taken by Ferina Natasya in Singapore, where the haze is causing record air pollution. Analysis of NASA hotspot data has revealed that the majority of fires are occurring within plantation...
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Australia Firm's Infractions in Indonesia Bring One-Year World Bank Project Ban
2013-06-24 18:31:24| ENR.com: Headline News
Engineer GHD says overcharges and fees that its now-closed local units paid to subconsultants on a 2007 post-tsunami contract was an isolated practice.
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