https://www.scmp.com/rss/512032/feed Alex Helan is an analyst with the Forest & Finance Coalition. He has managed financial investigations for Global Witness and Rainforest Action Network. He is also an award-winning documentary producer for the film "Selling Out West Papua", which won the Wincott Award in 2020 for outstanding achievement in financial and economic journalism. The film was also a Gold winner at the Venice TV Awards. Prior to that Alex was executive producer and producer of the 2018 feature-length documentary "The... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com One of the few mercies of the Covid-19 pandemic in Southeast Asia is that the initial outbreak did not occur during a severe fire and haze year, and that the wet and cool climatic pattern known as La Niña has kept fires down in the past few years. This looks like it’s about to change. Meteorologists are predicting 2022 will see the return of hot, dry and fire-prone conditions known as El Niño, a climate pattern that’s becoming more frequent and severe due to climate change. If Covid-19 had... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/asia/article/3169306/how-increased-threat-forest-fires-and-climate-change-southeast?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/asia/article/3169306/how-increased-threat-forest-fires-and-climate-change-southeast?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 07 Mar 2022 01:15:21 +0000