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How deforestation drives disaster risk

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INTRODUCTION

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

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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
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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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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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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
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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
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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.