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Conversation: One of the world’s major terrestrial carbon pools is rapidly deteriorating as large parts of Indonesia’s peatlands are deforested and converted to oil palm and paper plantations. No longer a carbon sink, Indonesia’s peatlands are now a globally significant source of emissions.
The June fires in Sumatra once again drew international attention to Indonesia’s forests. At the fires' peak, 140,000 hectares were burnt in just one week.
Most fires were in peatland, much of it on land destined to become......
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Indonesia sets a carbon time-bomb
Posted by Conversation: None Given on September 25th, 2013
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