How deforestation drives disaster risk

This paper analysed 3696 paired forest loss and intact sites across boreal, temperate, and tropical zones. Forest loss intensified meteorological drought in more than 52% of affected regions. Drought prevalence in boreal zones rose by 5% over 20 years.

Southern Madagascar has been hammered by two years of drought that has left 1.5 million people – half the region’s population – facing extreme hunger.

Deforestation and construction were responsible for multiple landslides in central Vietnam last month, according to an environment official.

Amazon collapse could soon mean the end of one of Earth’s richest habitats, leaving the rainforest destroyed by humans.

Nearly 1.2 million Afghans have been internally displaced by natural disasters such as floods and droughts since 2012.

Fires that burn the forest also hit crops and pastures. But farmers in the eastern Amazon are left with few good options.

Landslides in Kerala have returned the focus to the geological sensitivity of the Western Ghats after the Pettimudi incident near Munnar.

Destroying habitats makes viruses and other pathogens more likely to infect humans.

Due to rising temperatures, glacial lakes in Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are melting rapidly, which can cause hazardous glacial lake outburst flooding.

Indonesia's forest fires have jeopardized the progress in decreasing deforestation. Experts suggest three actions that countries could do to prevent the fire.