Posts tagged slash-and-burn
Choking on smoke: The growing curse of Indonesia's wildfires
Bill LauranceIndonesia, fires, smoke, smog, air pollution, wildfires, Malaysia, Singapore, Asia Pulp & Paper, deforestation, oil palm, wood pulp, slash-and-burn, corruption, Sinar Mas, Godzilla, El Nino, drought, air quality, school closures, peatlands
In smoke-choked Asia, fires beget more fires
Bill Laurancesmoke, air pollution, Sumatra, Southeast Asia, Singapore, David Gaveau, June 2013 fires, slash-and-burn, oil palm, pulpwood plantations, smog, fire dynamics, drought, forest fires
Eco-crisis: The devastation of Borneo's forests
Bill LauranceBorneo, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, deforestation, industrial logging, selective logging, slash-and-burn, oil palm plantations, oil palm, pulpwood plantations, biodiversity, biodiversity hotspot, forest clearing
We must save logged tropical forests
Bill Laurancetropical forests, logging, selective logging, biodiversity, ecosystem services, forest conversion, oil palm, slash-and-burn, conversion, logged forests
Is 'killer smog' returning to Southeast Asia?
Bill Lauranceforest fires, burning, smog, smoke, air pollution, Indonesia, Sumatra, Riau Province, slash-and-burn, illegal fires, Malaysia, Singapore
