Deforestation reducing monsoon rainfall in India: new study

Mongabay
By Shreya DasguptaSep 2, 2016, 6:20 am320 pts
Large-scale conversion of forests to crop lands is disrupting India’s rainfall, a new study has found. Around 80 percent of India’s annual rainfall comes from the Indian summer monsoon, spanning from June to September. But deforestation over the past few decades has caused summer monsoon to weaken,…

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