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Health of forest can affect the health of human civilisation.
With deforestation, many of the animals are forced out of the forest into marginal habitats which are in closer and more frequent contact with people,
More than two-thirds of zoonotic diseases are known to come from wild animals.
Deforestation also contribute to climate change and increases the risk of disease emergence by pushing animals and the vectors (e.g. insects) that can transmit viruses into new regions that have not encountered those pathogens previously.
21 typhoons with greater intensities hit the Philippines this year.
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How does higher temperatures lead to greater amount of rain brought by the typhoon?
As global temperatures increase, so does the ability of the atmosphere to hold water vapour. The air can hold about 7 per cent more water vapour for every single degree rise. It means heavier rains being deposited over a typhoon’s path.
The latest typhoon which hit the Philippines is Vamco.
Why are developing countries more vulnerable in facing natural disasters such as typhoons?
How does climate change contribute to more extreme weather?
Super Typhoon Haiyan in 2013 resulted in a loss of 6000 lives in the Philippines.
What can be done to mitigate climate change?