Sumatra’s ‘natural’ disaster wasn’t natural: How deforestation turned a rare cyclone catastrophic
via news.mongabay.com
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Indonesia’s government has been at pains to stress that the recent catastrophe in Sumatra was triggered by a rare meteorological event. Cyclone Senyar formed in the Malacca Strait, an area where the national weather agency notes such storms are “an extremely rare phenomenon,” before unloading torrents of rain on Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra. […]