MANILA (AFP) – Climate change may be playing a part in record rains ravaging Asia but environment experts say the destruction of ecosystems is more directly to blame for the severity of killer floods.
Widespread deforestation, the conversion of wetlands to farms or urban sprawl and the clogging up of natural drainage systems with garbage are just some of the factors exacerbating the impacts of the floods, they say.... Yahoo!News
Friday, August 20, 2010
Sprawl causes climate change AND makes it worse
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment