1. A fire with global connections
Michael Gross 
Current Biology 
Volume 25, Issue 23, Pages R1107-R1109 (December 2015)
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2. Forest fires: Dried-out forests and drained peat lands have been burning for several months this year, leaving the country smothered in a haze of orange smoke. (Photo: Ardiles Rante/Greenpeace.)
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3. Smoking gun: Greenpeace observers found new oil-palm seedlings planted in freshly burnt lands, demonstrating the connection between the fires and the deforestation for palm oil plantations. (Photo: Ardiles Rante/Greenpeace.)
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4. Desert bloom: The unusually strong El Niño of 2015–2016 will affect precipitation patterns around the world, leading to crop failures in some regions and blooming deserts in others. The photo shows the Atacama desert in Chile, after a rare episode of rainfall. (Photo: Javier Rubilar/Wikimedia Commons.)
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