69m people breathed toxic smoke from 2015 Indonesian fires: study

Mongabay
Nov 22, 2016, 5:40 am175 pts
Sixty-nine million people were exposed to toxic haze as a result of last year’s devastating wildfires in Indonesia, a new study has found. Little is known about the health impacts of Indonesia’s annual fires, which spread uncontrollably because the country’s vast peat swamp zones have been widely drained…

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