Pakistani Timber Mafia & Climate Change Caused Much of Summer’s Flooding

photo: DVIDSHUB / Creative Commons Back when 20% of Pakistan was underwater , I wrote about the influence of deforestation on the flooding–deforestation caused in no small part by illegal logging at the hands of the so-called timber mafia , a group with direct ties to the Taliban. Now, t… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Pakistani Timber Mafia & Climate Change Caused Much of Summer’s Flooding

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