http://www.monbiot.com/2015/10/30/nothing-to-see-here/

The air has turned ochre: visibility in some cities has been reduced to 30 metres. Children are being prepared for evacuation in warships; already some have choked to death. Species are going up in smoke at an untold rate.

The fires are destroying treasures as precious and irreplaceable as the archaeological remains being levelled by Isis. Orang utans, clouded leopards, sun bears, gibbons, the Sumatran rhinoceros and Sumatran tiger, these are among the threatened species being driven from much of their range by the flames. But there are thousands, perhaps millions, more.

So apparently Indonesia's been on fire for a while now.



To such an extent that they're supposedly producing more C02 emmissions right now than the annual yearly sum of Germany in just three weeks.

Links to other articles down below.

Evacuations on warships

Smoke inhalement deaths rising in kids

And apparently the fires have been going on for months, partially unable to be stopped due to the soil conditions in the area, and the political minefield of neighboring countries.

The real interesting thing about this, is that there's been no media coverage of it whatsover. In almost any country, when it's a pretty damn big issue at the moment.

Apparently they thought scorched earth was a good method for clearing land for crops. Well...

Wow, literally never heard of this until now. Are they just gonna let it run its course?

If it keeps running its course the fires will practically burn the respective islands they're on down.

My roommate says they burn them every year, much to the Malaysian government's annoyance because of the smog and health problems.

It's only this time the smog is affecting themselves rather than someone else.

See, this is why Asians hate each other.

Wait this is big news. Is this related to the reason why Singapore and other nearby countries are getting air contamination recently.

I wonder though what the cause of the fire is, forests being too mature. I remember in Canada due to forests growing old and becoming potential tinder boxes, the firefighters literally took a page out of the natives book and started burning certain section of the land to decrease the severity of any future forest fires.

Wait this is big news. Is this related to the reason why Singapore and other nearby countries are getting air contamination recently.

I wonder though what the cause of the fire is, forests being too mature. I remember in Canada due to forests growing old and becoming potential tinder boxes, the firefighters literally took a page out of the natives book and started burning certain section of the land to decrease the severity of any future forest fires.

It was controlled burning that started it. They were burning down sections of the forest to clear the way for more farmland and then they lost control, naturally.