http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Thu, 23 May 2013 08:20:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/11/16/farmers-flames-and-climate-are-we-entering-an-age-of-mega-fires/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/11/16/farmers-flames-and-climate-are-we-entering-an-age-of-mega-fires/#comments Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:29:23 +0000 Kevin Krajick http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=16232 For millennia, people have set fires to clear land for cultivation, pastures or hunting; so-called slash-and-burn agriculture is still common across much of tropical Africa, Asia and South America. It has been a useful strategy--but ...]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/11/16/farmers-flames-and-climate-are-we-entering-an-age-of-mega-fires/feed/ 3 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/06/to-burn-or-not-to-burn/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/06/to-burn-or-not-to-burn/#comments Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:00:25 +0000 Francesco Fiondella http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=13486 A new report by the World Resources Institute showcases IRI's efforts to get decision makers in Indonesia to change their fire policy, so that it was based on seasonal climate information.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/06/to-burn-or-not-to-burn/feed/ 1