New research shows how deforestation and population growth have greatly impacted landslide risk in the Kivu Rift. This is what researchers from KU Leuven, the Royal Museum for Central Africa and ULB established from an analysis of six decades of forest cover and population trends in the region. The study was published in Nature Sustainability.
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Source: Phys.org