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In many areas, drainage canals have lowered the water table enough to make peat swamp forests susceptible to fires. In the absence of human activity, Indonesia’s climate is wet enough that wildfires would not occur. Here, workers respond to fire near a drainage canal as smoke obscures trees in the background.
ENVIRONMENT, ASIA/PACIFIC
Indonesia Fires Emitted Double the Carbon of Amazon Fires
Guest Post November 26, 2019

Indonesian fires this year emitted nearly twice the amount of greenhouse gases as the forest fires that razed parts of the Brazilian Amazon, new research shows. (By Hans Nicholas Jong, MongoBay) Fires from land and ...

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The map above shows active fire detections in Brazil as observed by Terra and Aqua MODIS between August 15-22, 2019. The locations of the fires, shown in orange, have been overlain on nighttime imagery acquired by VIIRS.
OPINION
White Nationalism and Crony Capitalism Are the Sparks That Started Fires in the Amazon
Prabir Purkayastha September 11, 2019

The right only denies global warming because its climate ‘science’ has surrendered to capitalists. The man-made Amazon fires are for clearing the land of its forests and indigenous people. The benefits are for Jair Bolsonaro’s ...

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President Donald J. Trump joins G7 Leaders Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte; European Council President Donald Tusk; Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe; United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson; German Chancellor Angela Merkel; Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and G7 Summit host French President Emmanuel Macron during a G7 Working Session on Global Economy, Foreign Policy and Security Affairs at the Centre de Congrés Bellevue Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019, in Biarritz, France. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
ENVIRONMENT
Trump Skips G7 Climate Meeting, Gives Nonsensical Explanation
Peter Castagno August 26, 2019

“I feel the U.S. has tremendous wealth… I’m not going to lose that wealth on dreams, on windmills – which, frankly, aren’t working too well… I think I know more about the environment than most.” ...

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