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Indonesia province shuts schools as haze from fires returns
Associated Press, Published on 14/10/2019
» PALEMBANG, Indonesia: Thick, noxious haze from new deliberately set fires blanketed parts of Indonesia's Sumatra island on Monday after days of improving air quality, causing school closings and flight delays.
Indonesia arrests hundreds linked to forest fires
Associated Press, Published on 19/09/2019
» JAKARTA: Indonesian police said Thursday that they have arrested 230 people suspected of starting fires that are spreading health-damaging haze across a large part of Southeast Asia.
Smoke blots out western United States
Associated Press, Published on 22/08/2018
» SEATTLE: Smoke from wildfires clog the sky across the entire western part of the United States, blotting out mountains and city skylines from Oregon to Colorado, delaying flights and forcing authorities to tell even healthy adults in the Seattle area to stay indoors.
Orangutan forest being logged despite Indonesian govt vow
Associated Press, Published on 05/06/2018
» JAKARTA: Environmentalists say a tropical forest that's home to critically endangered orangutans on Borneo island is being logged more than a year after Indonesia's forestry and environment ministry ordered a halt to the forest's exploitation.
Greenpeace: Paper giant cut forests during conservation pact
Associated Press, Published on 16/05/2018
» Greenpeace has ended a five-year truce with one of the world's largest paper companies, accusing it of cutting down tropical forests in Indonesia during the entire time the two were cooperating on conservation.
Indonesia mobilises to combat health-damaging forest fires
Associated Press, Published on 21/02/2018
» JAKARTA: Four Indonesian provinces have declared emergencies in anticipation of worsening forest fires that each year spread health-damaging haze across much of Southeast Asia.
Indonesia pulp giant tied to firms accused of fires
Associated Press, Published on 20/12/2017
» JAKARTA: Despite its denials, one of the world's biggest paper producers has extensive behind-the-scenes ties and significant influence over wood suppliers linked to fires and deforestation that have degraded Indonesia's stunning natural environment, The Associated Press has found.
California governor: Christmas fires 'the new reality'
Associated Press, Published on 11/12/2017
» FALLBROOK, California: A week of destructive fires in Southern California is ending but danger still looms.
Palm oil kills orangutans in Indonesia peat swamp
Associated Press, Published on 27/08/2017
» TRIPA PEAT SWAMP, Indonesia -- It's been called the orangutan capital of the world, but the great apes in Indonesia's Tripa peat forest on the island of Sumatra are under threat by palm oil plantations that have gobbled up thousands of acres of land to make room for trees that produce the most consumed vegetable oil on the planet.
Indonesian villagers fell forest in orangutan sanctuary
Associated Press, Published on 27/07/2017
» JAKARTA -- Nearly a fifth of the forest in an orangutan sanctuary on the Indonesian part of Borneo has been taken over by people, a conservation group says, threatening efforts to rehabilitate the critically endangered great apes for release into the wild.