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Indonesia Fires Burned Through Nearly 2.9 Million Hectares: Monitor
The burned area is 18 times the size of London, and the government has not yet released updated official figures.
- On Wednesday, the monitor Nusantara Atlas reported that fires driven by a strong El Niño have razed 2.88 million hectares across Indonesia in 2026, an area roughly 18 times the size of London.
- Decades of deforestation and peatland drainage for plantations have made the landscape highly vulnerable to ignition, amplifying the intense drought caused by the current El Niño weather pattern.
- Researchers from the World Weather Attribution group reported Friday that human-induced climate change made this year's hot, dry conditions about three times more likely, releasing an estimated 175 million tonnes of carbon.
- Haze-Related health impacts have sickened hundreds of thousands, prompting school closures and flight disruptions in Malaysia and Singapore; Forestry ministry spokesman Ristianto Pribadi stated the government requires "in-depth confirmation and verification" before releasing updated estimates.
- Proactive, preventative action could stop future years from having impacts on this scale, according to Maja Vahlberg of the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, who urges restoring drained peatlands to reduce fire vulnerability.
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Indonesia’s El Niño‑driven peat fires are choking the region, releasin
Indonesia’s El Niño-fuelled peat fires are exposing millions across Southeast Asia to hazardous air pollution and releasing vast amounts of stored carbon – underscoring the urgent need to restore degraded peatlands.
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Climate change made Indonesian fires more severe, scientists say - Regional Media News
By David Stanway SINGAPORE, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Wildfires that hit large parts of Indonesia from August to October and plunged much of Southeast Asia into hazardous smoke were made much worse by "record-breaking" heat caused by human-induced climate change, scientists said on Friday. While [...]
Forest fires that ravaged forests and vegetation in Indonesia were mainly caused by an intense El Niño phenomenon.
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