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Indonesia’s Fire Season: Bad but Not As Bad
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Indonesia’s Fire Season: Bad but Not As Bad

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Aug 24, 2016
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Indonesia’s fire season, in which hundreds of thousands of hectares of primary forest and peatland go up in smoke annually to be replaced by oil palm and paper plantations, is underway, with satellites recording hundreds of hot spots on Sumatra and Kalimantan.

However, according to the nonprofit environmental science and conservation website Mongabay, th…

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