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Tawangmangu, Central Java, Indonesia, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2007
Major landslide in Tawangmangu, Central Java, Indonesia, exactly three years after Tsunami. Days of torrential rain triggered landslides on 26 Dec 2007 that killed dozens of people in western Indonesia on Wednesday while floods inundated thousands of houses elsewhere in the country. (source AP). One may question, again, wether global large-scale deforestation might not be responsible for such exceptional precipitations in this La Nina year, and/or wether deforestation at local scale is now causing such landslide after trees and forest soil has been removed which might otherwise absorb these important rains. Read more about deforestation in Asia at Mongabay.com
