Less rainforest, less rain: A cautionary tale from Borneo
▻https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/less-rainforest-less-rain-a-cautionary-tale-from-borneo
A recent study finds that massive deforestation across Borneo, in large part for oil palm plantations, has led to higher temperatures and less precipitation over the past 60 years.
Forests not only provide shade, but create their own rainfall, essentially recycling the freshwater in the soil and vegetation.
The local changes in climate could spell trouble for the very crop driving them, and one of Indonesia and Malaysia’s most lucrative commodities: palm oil.
This post is part of “Saving Life on Earth: Words on the Wild,” a monthly column by Jeremy Hance, one of Mongabay’s original staff writers.
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