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Early tech warning hopes to give Sumatra’s peat community a head start on fires

MUARO JAMBI, Indonesia — Pineapples rattled around in the basket on the back of Tahang’s motorcycle as he drove through the cracked and dried out peatland in eastern Sumatra’s Muaro Jambi district. Tahang later pulled up beside local residents Ali and Haidir, as smoke drifted in the distance over a grove of areca palms, which […]

Early tech warning hopes to give Sumatra’s peat community a head start on fires

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