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Fires on Borneo. And Sumatra
On Sumatra, a chain of steep mountains runs along theāāwestern coast and tapers downāāto a low-lying coastal plain in the "east." There, "the land is covered by," a mixture of lowland rainforests, "peat swamp forests," wetlands, and agricultural lands. People use slash-and-burn deforestationāāto clear land for agriculture, with negative outcomes for environmental quality not just at the site itself. But surrounding ecosystems as well. Fires get out of control and "creep into undisturbed forests," degrading them and setting them up for more intense fires later on. Regional air quality is compromised off and on for several months when the burning is severe, as it was in 1998, during an extreme El NiƱo-induced drought.
Open burning is banned. But regulation is difficult. This image of burning on the island was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAās Aqua satellite on October 14, 2004. Active fires are marked in red. And are most abundant in the area around the city Palembang, to the right of image center. Meanwhile, to the east, fires in the Kalimantan, Indonesia, portion of the island of Borneo are contributing to the regional haze.
NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained from the MODIS Rapid Response team.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=12530
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