On warming, peat is the ‘elephant in the room’

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Courtesy MSNBC.com: Environment  Thu, 11/19/2009 - 06:22

A Greenpeace team is seen extinguishing fires in Kuala Cinaku of Indragiri Hulu district, Riau province, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, on Aug. 1.<br /><br />Riau province recorded 2,800 fire hotspots in July as many are lit deliberately to clear forests for palm oil and paper plantations, Greenpeace activists said.<br /><br />A vast and often smoldering layer of coal-black peat has made Indonesia the world's third-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases after China and the United States.




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