Early tech warning hopes to give Sumatra’s peat community a head start on fires

Mongabay
Oct 29, 2026, 8:49 am95 pts
MUARO JAMBI, Indonesia — Pineapples rattled around in the basket on the back of Tahang’s motorcycle as he drove through the cracked and dried out peatland in eastern Sumatra’s Muaro Jambi district. Tahang later pulled up beside local residents Ali and Haidir, as smoke drifted in the distance over a grove…

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Early tech warning hopes to give Sumatra’s peat community a head start on fires

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