Oil palm plantations in Sumatran wetland worsen flooding in communities

Mongabay
Sep 11, 2020, 6:37 am219 pts
JAKARTA — Newly published research has linked the spread of oil palm and rubber plantations across a wetland area of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island to worsening floods in the region. The analysis, published in August in the journal Ecology and Society, shows that “the observed and measured increase in flood…

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