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No Rain without Forest: Amazon Deforestation Promotes Drought
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Droughts have withered crops in Peru, fires have ravaged the Amazon and hydroelectric dams in Ecuador battle to generate electricity because rivers dry up. Scientists say the cause can be found far above the rainforest, where invisible “flying rivers” carry rain from the Atlantic Ocean to the rest of South America. The post Amazon Deforestation dries the flying rivers that water South America first appeared on Cubadebate.
Sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees—or its important role in rain. Independent studies now show that deforestation of the Amazon rainforest is leading to a decline in rainfall.
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