Coastal deforestation fuels more frequent storms in West Africa, study warns

Mongabay
Jan 11, 2022, 12:04 pm179 pts
In 2017, catastrophic flooding in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, left at least 1,000 people dead and many more homeless. In a matter of minutes, mudslides wiped out homes and destroyed lives. Now, new research links the emergence of such deluges to disappearing green cover in southern West Africa. Compared…

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