{
  "id": 17755206,
  "title": "Indonesia’s fires are releasing centuries of stored carbon",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/02/indonesias-fires-are-releasing-centuries-of-stored-carbon-17755206",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-02T05:12:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Jakarta Post",
    "slug": "the-jakarta-post",
    "url": "https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/11/02/indonesias-fires-are-releasing-centuries-of-stored-carbon.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "An El-Niño-induced intense drought is the match that lit this year's peat fires in Indonesia, which are releasing ancient carbon that won’t be reabsorbed by future forest growth as a dire consequence of land conversion.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}