Indonesia’s forest fires

Burning questions

 7.11.2015. ONE of the countries most seriously affected by this year’s mighty Niño is Indonesia. By the middle of last month more than 20,000 firefighters were battling blazes across its jungles and peatland. Only the onset of heavy rains has brought some respite from the toxic smoke which has shrouded South-East Asia since August. Perhaps $200m has been spent trying to douse the blazes, which at times have outnumbered firefighters five-to-one. Some scientists think that by drying out already-parched earth, trenches dug to supply water for hoses may even have made things worse.

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