Deforestation has killed half a million people in past 20 years, study finds | Deforestation

Forestation has killed more than half a million people in tropical regions in the last twenty years as a result of heat -related disease. A study found.

Land cleaning increases the temperature in the rainforests of Amazon, Congo and Southeast Asia, because it reduces the shadow, reduces rainfall and increases the risk of fire.

Forestation is responsible for one third of the heating of affected people living in affected areas and above the influence of global climate deterioration.

Approximately 345 million people in the tropical regions suffered from heating this localized, foresting-induced heating between 2001-2020. Additional heating for them added 3C to exposure to heat.

In many cases, it was fatal. Researchers estimated that warming consists of 28,330 deaths annually in the 20 -year -old period due to forestization. More than half were in Southeast Asia due to the larger population in areas with heat fragility. Approximately one -third in Tropical Africa, the rest in Central and South America.

Study Published on Wednesday in Doğa Climate Change magazine. Researchers in Brazil, Ghana and the UK compared non -accident mortality and temperatures in areas affected by tropical land cleaning.

Previous studies have shown how the trees cut and burned caused long -term localized heating, but the new article is the first article to calculate the next death fee.

Prof Dominick Spracklen He said that the message from Leeds University was “killing without disintegration”. In the global climate debate and in the market -oriented expansion of agricultural borders, many people expect the findings to be shocked, as the local dangers of frequently disappeared.

For example, he pointed to the Brazilian region of Mato Grosso, which is a great deforestation to open land for large soybean plantations. Farmers in this region are now forcing them to put an end to the soy moratoryum in Amazon so that they can clean up more areas.

Spracklen said that leaving the canopy -firm life would save lives and increase farm production. “If Mato can keep the forests alive, the people there will experience less heat stress,” he said. “This only calls for forest protection for the sake of the Western global climate. Forests directly benefit local communities. They regulate temperature, bring rainfall and support people’s addiction. These forests are not idle – they really work hard and do something really important for us.”