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Nature 432, 144-146 (11 November 2004) | doi:10.1038/432144a; Published online 10 November 2004
Land remediation: Borneo is burning
Peter Aldhous1
- Peter Aldhous is Nature's chief news & features editor.
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Abstract
Vast tracts of Indonesia's peat swamps have been drained in a misguided attempt to turn them into rice plantations. Now the landscape burns every year, belching smoke and hastening global warming. Peter Aldhous investigates.
Sitting in a small boat at the junction of two drainage canals, all I can see are walls of crumbling peat piled up to four metres high. On these parched banks, nothing grows.
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