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‘El Niño turned off the taps’: factors behind Indonesia’s wildfires revealed
Country’s fiercest blazes in at least a decade produced toxic smog blamed for 400,000 respiratory infections Indonesia’s fiercest fires in at least a decade were amplified by an “El Niño that turned off the taps” and “fossil fuels that turned up the heat”, scientists have revealed. Along with the conversion of forests to plantations, this created the conditions for blazes that have burned almost 3m hectares (7.4m…