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Underground coal fires
Incidence
In Indonesia in 1997, there were still peat fires burning in the earth from the El Niño events of 1983. Rain does not extinguish deep peat or coal fires. They smoulder, like self-combustion, underground indefinitely.
Broader
Fires
Environmental impacts of coal mining
Aggravates
Destruction of wetland environments
Aggravated by
Disruption to climate from El Niño
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Underground
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems