More than 9,000 firefighters are deployed by the Indonesia to battle forest fires in Sumatra and Borneo Island.
Jakarta deployed more than 9,000 personnel to battle fires turning land into charred landscapes and consuming forests in hard-hit Sumatra and Borneo Island. “Even after we’ve managed to put out a fire on the ground, sometimes it is not over because it’s still burning underground. And then the next morning the ground fire will just reignite.”The culprit behind Indonesia’s blazes is usually illegal fires set to clear land for the lucrative palm oil and pulpwood industries and the situation this year has been worsened by drier weather.
At the peak of Indonesia’s 2015 forest fires, the country’s worst in two decades, blazes in peat swamp forests emitted nearly 16 million tonnes of carbon emissions daily, more than the entire US economy in the same period, according to watchdog The International Union for Conservation of Nature. “When you’re dealing with large areas of peat burning it’s just so expensive to bring in large quantities of water,” said Michael Brady, an Indonesia-based peatlands expert at the Centre for International Forestry Research.
Malaysia Latest News, Malaysia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Source: msianinsight - 🏆 8. / 63 Read more »
Source: fmtoday - 🏆 5. / 72 Read more »
It's not because there is no solution it's because there is no serious effort to solve the problem.
Source: NST_Online - 🏆 17. / 53 Read more »
Source: msianinsight - 🏆 8. / 63 Read more »
ALMOST EVERY DAMN YEAR! 😡 been experiencing this shitty haze shit since 2006. It all boils down to the will of the political leaders whose countries are affected by the haze. Just wondering if the lungs of our Ministers are stronger than we the rakyat?chedetoffical yeobeeyin zuraida_my
Source: NST_Online - 🏆 17. / 53 Read more »
Source: fmtoday - 🏆 5. / 72 Read more »