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How deforestation drives disaster risk

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From landslide to floods, from drought to extreme heat, deforestation drives disaster risk.

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Updates
14 March 2022

Drought and deforestation: How Madagascar’s children are paying the price

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.
The New Humanitarian
Updates
2 November 2020

Deforestation, construction to blame for central Vietnam landslides

Deforestation and construction were responsible for multiple landslides in central Vietnam last month, according to an environment official.
VnExpress International
Updates
30 September 2020

Fire and drought could trigger Amazon collapse

Amazon collapse could soon mean the end of one of Earth’s richest habitats, leaving the rainforest destroyed by humans.
Climate News Network
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Updates
8 September 2020

Made worse by tree loss, flooding forces migration in Afghanistan

Nearly 1.2 million Afghans have been internally displaced by natural disasters such as floods and droughts since 2012.
Thomson Reuters Foundation, trust.org
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Updates
17 August 2020

Amazon fires trap farmers into poverty – and into setting more fires

Fires that burn the forest also hit crops and pastures. But farmers in the eastern Amazon are left with few good options.
Conversation Media Group, the
Updates
11 August 2020

Deadly landslides are becoming Kerala’s new reality every monsoon

Landslides in Kerala have returned the focus to the geological sensitivity of the Western Ghats after the Pettimudi incident near Munnar.
Mongabay
Updates
1 May 2020

Stopping deforestation can prevent pandemics

Destroying habitats makes viruses and other pathogens more likely to infect humans.
Scientific American, a Division of Nature America, Inc.
Updates
24 October 2019

Experts link glacier lake melt to deforestation, rising temperature in KP

Due to rising temperatures, glacial lakes in Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are melting rapidly, which can cause hazardous glacial lake outburst flooding.
The Frontier Post
Updates
7 October 2019

Intense forest fires threaten to derail Indonesia's progress in reducing deforestation

Indonesia's forest fires have jeopardized the progress in decreasing deforestation. Experts suggest three actions that countries could do to prevent the fire.
World Resources Institute
Research briefs
13 September 2019

Brazil: Moderate forest damage raises local temperature

As a result of the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, the local ground temperature has increased, British researchers have found.
Climate News Network

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