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Deforestation responsible for severe flooding : Study
Monday, October 08, 2007 sify.com
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Researchers studying the links between native forest cover and flooding during the 1990s in 56 developing countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America, have found that nearly 1Lakh people in the developing world were killed, and another 320 million displaced by floods, over a period of 10 years. The scientists said that deforestation is primarily responsible for the increase in the frequency an
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