1. Burning those forests, of course, adds to the problem. 2. But then the settlers came, slashing and burning the forest to make way for crops. 3. Scientists say those gases, from smokestacks, tailpipes and burning forests, are contributing to a potentially calamitous warming trend. 4. Singapore and Malaysia have been the worst hit by haze caused by fires in Indonesia as forests are burned to clear land. 5. Soldiers razed the outlying villages, which they suspected of being guerrilla havens, and burned forests in which guerrillas had found refuge. 6. The pollution is caused by smoke from fires in neighboring Indonesia, where forest is being burnt to clear land. 7. The pollution is caused by smoke from fires in neighboring Indonesia, where forest is being burned to clear land. 8. When the low-lying paddies they own do not yield enough, they slash and burn the forest on the hills, making way for more rice fields. 9. Other methods to fight the fires would include controlling shifting cultivation by nomadic peoples to slash and burn forests in order ot cultivate land. 10. A growing population of landless peasants increasingly invades, cuts and burns unprotected forest. |