From the Australian outback to the Amazon basin, wildfires are becoming more frequent and more severe. For the past three years, fires have burned more than twice as much tree cover as they did two decades ago owing to the compounding effects of climate change. Nowhere are these effects felt more severely than in Borneo’s tropical peat-swamp forests. Peatlands are wetland ecosystems made up of partially decomposed plant material that has accum…
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