Palm oil plantations, coal mines linked to deadly Indonesia flood

Mongabay
Jan 20, 2021, 5:50 am192 pts
JAKARTA — Recent floods that inundated large areas of the southern part of Indonesian Borneo might have been exacerbated by massive deforestation for oil palm plantations and coal mines, activists say. Heavy rains over the course of several days in early January battered the province of South Kalimantan,…

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Palm oil plantations, coal mines linked to deadly Indonesia flood

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