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Indonesia drops water bombs on fires, may resort to cloud-seeding
2013-06-22 23:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: In an effort to control peat fires casting a pall of haze over neighboring Singapore and Malaysia, Indonesia is using airplanes to drop water across hotspots in Riau Province on the island of Sumatra, reports AFP. Officials say they may try cloud-seeding - dumping silver iodide at high altitude - if current fire-fighting efforts fall short. The fires are a growing source of tension between Indonesia and its neighbors. The Indonesian minister in charge of handling the fires, fanned the diplomatic...
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Tata Motors launches CSR initiative in Indonesia
2013-06-22 21:41:40| Automakers - Topix.net
Jakarta, June 22 : "INSPIRAKSI", which will extensively use the social media as an interface to discuss and evolve community-focussed solutions relating to education, empowerment, health and sanitation, among others, for the corporate social responsibility programme of Tata Motors Indonesia, has been launched here by Indian Ambassador Gurjit Singh.
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Indonesia fights fires, faces ire as smog blankets Singapore
2013-06-22 06:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Air quality in Singapore improved significantly to "moderate" pollution levels on Saturday, as Indonesian planes waterbombed raging forest fires and investigators scrambled to determine the cause of one of Southeast Asia's worst air pollution crises. Indonesia's environment minister said eight domestic firms were suspected of being responsible for the blazes on Sumatra island that blanketed neighboring Singapore in record levels of hazardous smog. The parent companies of the Indonesian firms included...
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Peering Through the Haze: What Data Can Tell Us About the Fires in Indonesia
2013-06-21 23:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
World Resources Institute: People in Indonesia, Singapore, and parts of Malaysia are currently suffering from debilitating levels of haze resulting from forest fires. Air quality levels in Singapore have deteriorated to the worst levels ever recorded on the island, while local airports in Indonesia and some schools in Malaysia have had to close. Almost all of the recent fires (June 12-20) have occurred in Sumatra, an island in western Indonesia. While theres been heated debate on the location, cause, and nature of the...
Indonesia to seed clouds, try to put out huge plantation fires
2013-06-21 20:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Record-breaking air pollution caused by peatland fires in Sumatra has Malaysians and Singaporeans locked indoors - and Indonesia today plans to try an unconventional approach to tackling the flames. The Indonesians will dump chemicals from aircraft high above smoldering palm plantations in hopes of changing the weather. The goal is to seed clouds and force them to rain their moisture out over the stubborn conflagrations, which were triggered by slash-and-burn forest-clearing by the palm oil industry....
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