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Carbon & Climate
How can we prevent wildfire disasters?
Deadly wildfires on Maui island come weeks after fires linked to climate change caused devastation in Canada and Greece. Can anything be done to stop them?
Food & Agriculture
Indonesia's peatlands are more fire-prone than official figures claim as dry season looms: study
As a dry season exacerbated by El Niño approaches, a new study warns that large expanses of Indonesia's climate-critical peatlands may not be sufficiently restored after the fires of 2015, despite government claims.
Carbon & Climate
As El Niño fuels fire risk, Southeast Asia braces for haze crisis
Climate-heating El Niño weather pattern is expected to increase threat of forest fires in Indonesia and air pollution in SE Asia.
Policy & Finance
How China protects its ‘unofficial’ wetlands
Damage done to a wetland in the name of “environmental restoration” raises questions about how China’s lesser-known wetlands are protected.
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How can the palm oil industry reach net zero?
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Policy & Finance
State-wide approach could transform palm oil
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Food & Agriculture
Indonesia slashed forests, peatlands to secure 1,500-hectare food estate
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