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WILDFIRES continued to devastate nations across the globe yesterday, threatening lives and homes to an unprecedented extent.
In Indonesia, firefighters battled a peatland fire on the island of Sumatra that was growing in size near a dense residential area.
Their struggle was hampered by limited firefighting equipment and a distant water source, located an hour’s journey away from the fire near the village of Pulau Negara in South Sumatra province.
Nature's self-reconstruction is both intriguing and beneficial and as such merits human protection, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
When it comes to extreme weather events, from wildfires to flash floods, it’s firefighters who are on the front line of defence, but services have been cut to the bone, and government is not taking seriously its responsibility for the environment, says STEVE WRIGHT