You’ve heard the term, but do you know the true facts about deforestation? The makers of paper products do. But trust us: ...

Heavy rain continues to batter Assam as the state struggles to recover from the floods that impacted over 24 lakh people across 30 districts, including Cachar, Kamrup, Dhubri, Nagaon, and others.

Forests have a big influence on rainfall patterns, water and soil quality and flood prevention too. Millions of people rely directly on forests as their home or for making a living. But the risks from ...

Jorge Rulli, of the Reflexion Rural environmental group, also linked deforestation with increasing flooding and noted the impact of single-crop farming, which has been displacing cattle ranching ...

absorb more carbon dioxide and reduce the risk of flooding. So what can we do to help? On a global scale, governments can introduce regulations that slow down and eventually stop deforestation.

New Global Witness analysis shows deforestation linked to UK imports is continuing to rage on amid regulatory delays ...

Housing developments can increase problems of flooding as they have many impermeable surfaces which stops water from soaking into the ground. Deforestation takes place in some parts of the county.

TASS/. /TASS/. The illegal deforestation in the Eastern Sayan Mountains is one of the reasons of difficult effects of the floods that occurred in the Irkutsk Region in June, Greenpeace Russia said ...

The effects of deforestation are not confined to loss of tree cover and unpredictable weather conditions along with adverse monsoon, but are linked to and result in flooding, siltation ...

such as human settlements in flood plains, deforestation, and dams, can all increase vulnerability and reduce natural buffers. The analysis identified four key types of floods. The rain/pluvial ...