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South Papua, Indonesia
Fires and floods hit region
Indonesia's South Papua province faces ongoing wildfires exacerbated by dry conditions, despite recent rainfall, per The Jakarta Post.
The fires have prompted weather modification efforts to combat the blaze, as reported by Tempo.co.
Neighboring countries are grappling with toxic haze from the fires, creating political tensions, BBC notes.
A magnitude 2.7 earthquake struck near Jayapura on Monday, according to VolcanoDiscovery.
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check it yourselfFires seen from orbit
133 hot spots in 24 h within 300 km · 27 new this week
1,109 MW of heat · 230 the day before
satellites see heat, not its cause
“Satellites picked up 133 fires within 300 kilometres in the last day, 27 of them where nothing burned earlier this week.”
NASA FIRMS VIIRS (NOAA-20, NOAA-21), gas flares and steady industrial heat removed · Open the same data on firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov →
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