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The Fires In Indonesia Are A Health And Climate Nightmare
Indonesia is in the midst of the worst spate of forest fires in nearly two decades, sending choking smoke across Southeast Asia, releasing tons of carbon, and destroying thousands of acres of peat forest, one of the world’s most effective carbon sinks.
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This has been going on for years. I lived in Kuala Lumpur 15 years ago and it was terrible then too. They burn for a month and it blankets the entire region. It literally makes the daylight into dusk.