Heavy rain fell in some parts of Borneo, where fires are raging in peat land and jungle, but it did not clear the air, the official Antara news agency reported.
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The worst of the smog came from burning peat land, made drier by the drought induced by the El Nino phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean which affects global weather patterns.
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The town of Pekan, with a population of 50, 000, is built on peat land and is surrounded by swamps and several major tributaries of the Pahang river, the biggest river in Peninsular Malaysia.
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The Clonmacnoise and West Offaly Railway ( a narrow gauge railway ) is principally used to transport the peat to the power station and also provides passenger tours of the peat lands for visitors.
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Antara quoted Wibono, the director general for community development, as saying the plan is aimed at accelerating the cultivation of peat land in central Kalimantan and helping Indonesia achieve self-sufficiency in its staple crop of rice.
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The centre of the town is on the west side of the old harbour, which is originally a stream ('De Vlaarding') from the peat lands north and east of the town, running to the Meuse estuary.
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There they encounter huge problems ranging from the lack of right equipment, no water source to fight the fires with, up to the problem of identifying the source of the fires deep in the peat land.
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President B . J . Habibie has decided to scrap an ambitious project to convert a million hectares ( 2.5 million acres ) of peat land into rice fields after finding it too costly, an official said Tuesday.
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On the other hand, with medium confidence, Schneider " et al " . ( 2007 ) commented that additional releases of GHGs were possible from permafrost, peat lands, wetlands, and large stores of marine hydrates at high latitudes.
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On the other hand, with medium confidence, Schneider " et al . " ( 2007 ) commented that additional releases of GHGs were possible from permafrost, peat lands, wetlands, and large stores of marine hydrates at high latitudes.
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