In landslide-prone Colombia, forests can serve as an inexpensive shield

Mongabay
Apr 13, 2022, 4:51 pm331 pts
Only aerial footage captures the true scale of the horror: Houses have been flattened, roads ruined, and everything looks like it’s been covered in a film of dark-brown syrup. A sludgy scar down the mountainside shows the trail that a hunk of dislodged rock and earth took in the moments before it upturned the…

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