News Brief
Rains Abate Destructive Indonesian Fires
Recent rains have abated
Indonesian fires that razed an estimated 620,000 acres (250,000 hectares) this year. Klaus Toepher, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), says the situation could become “one of the greatest ecological disasters of the millenium.”
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Published May 1, 1998 Permalink Citation
(1998, May 1). Rains Abate Destructive Indonesian Fires. Retrieved from https://www.buildinggreen.com/newsbrief/rains-abate-destructive-indonesian-fires
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