Emergency declared as fires reappear in Sumatra

Mongabay
By <a class="author-link"…Mar 15, 2016, 12:31 am90 pts
The number of hotspots across Indonesia's forests and peatlands increased to 76 across Kalimantan and Sumatra on Monday as authorities prepared for elevated risks of widespread fires in the coming weeks. Data from Global Forest Watch show a cluster of fires in the northeastern coastal areas of Riau, across the…

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