The Amazon, Siberia, Indonesia: A World of Fire

[SummerMadness]

The Amazon, Siberia, Indonesia: A World of Fire

In South America, the Amazon basin is ablaze. Halfway around the world in central Africa, vast stretches of savanna are going up in flame. Arctic regions in Siberia are burning at a historic pace.

While the Brazilian fires have grown into a full-blown international crisis, they represent only one of many significant areas where wildfires are currently burning around the world. Their increase in severity and spread to places where fires were rarely previously seen is raising fears that climate change is exacerbating the danger.

 

[Goonie]

 

[Ricky M]

Reminds me of the verse about 1/3 of the earth being burnt up...

 

[Nithavela]

lol

 

[Trogdor the Burninator]

At least in the case of Indonesia, they do it every year. They only started to get serious about preventing the burnoffs when Jakarta started experiencing it.

Here's an old article about it - A burning issue for Singapore: Indonesia’s war on haze

 

[Tanj]

At least in the case of Indonesia, they do it every year. They only started to get serious about preventing the burnoffs when Jakarta started experiencing it.

Here's an old article about it - A burning issue for Singapore: Indonesia’s war on haze

While I was in Singapore I lived through that haze. It was truly awful.

 

[Trogdor the Burninator]

While I was in Singapore I lived through that haze. It was truly awful.

Agreed.
I time my visits each year to avoid July-September for that very reason.