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Article: Indonesian wildfires blamed for global warming
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- November 7, 2002
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Indonesian wildfires blamed for global warming
LONDON, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- New research has shown that the forest
fires, which ravaged Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia, five
years ago, caused a massive increase in levels of greenhouse gases
which cause global warming.
Most of the carbon dioxide caused by the wildfires did not come
from burnt trees but from smoldering deposits of peat, said a report
carried in the latest issue of British science journal Nature to be
published on Thursday.
Tropical peat bogs, such as those beneath the forests of
Indonesia, are among the planet's largest stores of carbon. They
release much more carbon dioxide when they burn than the trees that ...