Indonesia's Hidden Inferno: A Climate Tragedy in the Making Indonesia's 2026 fire season has begun, but what's most alarming isn't the visible flames ravaging the landscape – it's the hidden fires smoldering beneath our feet.
These underground peat fires are a ticking time bomb, threatening to unleash unprecedented levels of pollution and destruction upon the country.
Peat fires produce far more fine particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, organic carbon, methane, and carbon monoxide than traditional tropical forest fires.