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 ...

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.

Second, deforestation can cause the land surface to become relatively warm, triggering upward air flows and the formation of areas of low atmospheric pressure. Such ‘heat lows’ draw in ...

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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.

Deforestation in the Amazon causes more rain ... Increased rainfall "could exacerbate the wet season flooding in certain deforested regions, harming regional agriculture and the social economy ...

Deforestation refers to forests intentionally ... altered rainfall patterns and water cycles, soil erosion and flooding, and threats to Indigenous communities that rely on forests.

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 ...

"Because when patchouli is planted there, there will be erosion, flooding, and landslides ... also has the potential to increase deforestation, as firewood is used from the surrounding forests ...