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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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Gran Canaria Fire
ENVIRONMENT
‘Unprecedented Environmental Tragedy’ as Gran Canaria Island Engulfed by Wildfires  
Rami Almeghari August 20, 2019

Fires on Gran Canaria, the second most popular island of Spain’s Canary Islands, have already forced the evacuation of thousands and remain uncontrolled. A wildfire that ripped through the island of Gran Canaria in Spain’s ...

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ENVIRONMENT
Science Points To Climate Change As Reason For California Wildfires
Walter Yeates November 24, 2018

“What we can conclude with a great deal of confidence now is that climate change is making these events more extreme.” “You look at other countries where they do it differently and it’s a whole ...

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