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Chopping down areas of tropical rainforest is causing rising temperatures linked to thousands of deaths

The Conversation · 🇦🇺 public Australia · · 876 words · By Dominick Spracklen
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What to know about Chopping down areas of tropical rainforest is causing rising temperatures linked to thousands of deaths

But when large numbers of trees are cut down, they get even hotter.

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What happened

But when large numbers of trees are cut down, they get even hotter.

Why it matters

Our recent research shows that clearing large areas of the rainforest exposes hundreds of millions of people to higher temperatures, increasing heat stress (when the body’s way of controlling temperature fails) and, in some cases, contributing to death.

Common ground

Research suggests that this could be contributing to 28,000 heat-related deaths each year across the tropics every year.

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No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 11 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Research suggests that this could be contributing to 28,000 heat-related deaths each year across the tropics every year.”
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Wikipedia entries about deforestation and the Amazon rainforest do not mention the specific 28,000 heat-related deaths figure. No direct evidence supports the claim.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Amazon rainforest, also called the Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompa…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Deforestation or forest clearance is the removal and destruction of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use. Deforestation can involve conversion of forest land t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In the theory of programming languages in computer science, deforestation (also known as fusion) is a program transformation to eliminate intermediate lists or tree structures that are created and the…
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Claim 2: “Tropical regions that retained their forest cover warmed by an average of 0.2°C. In nearby areas where forests were cleared, temperatures rose by 0.7°C – more than three times as fast.”
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Claim 3: “Clearing large areas of the rainforest exposes hundreds of millions of people to higher temperatures.”
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Claim 4: “Over the past 20 years, large areas of forest in the Amazon, Congo and south-east Asia were cleared.”
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Wikipedia entries on deforestation by continent and the Congo Basin confirm large-scale deforestation in the Amazon, Congo, and Southeast Asia over the past 20 years.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Congo Basin is the sedimentary basin of the Congo River. The Congo Basin is located in Central Africa, in a region known as west equatorial Africa. The Congo Basin region is sometimes known simply…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Rates and causes of deforestation vary from region to region around the world. In 2009, two-thirds of the world's forests were located in just 10 countries: Russia, Brazil, Canada, the United States, …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo or less often Zaire, is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is the second-largest …
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Claim 5: “Trees cool their surroundings by pumping water from the soil into the atmosphere – a process known as evapotranspiration.”
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Claim 6: “In 2024, more than 6 million hectares of primary tropical forests were destroyed, the fastest rate since records began.”
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Wikipedia entries for 2024 US election, a 1917 song, and a 2024 film are unrelated to deforestation statistics. No evidence supports the claim.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 5, 2024. The Republican Party's ticket—Donald Trump, who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021, and JD V…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — "Over There" is a 1917 war song written by George M. Cohan that was popular with the United States military and the American public during World War I and World War II. Written shortly after the Ameri…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Party's Over (Spanish: Fin de fiesta) is a 2024 black comedy film written and directed by Elena Manrique (in her directorial debut feature). It stars Edith Martínez-Val, Beatriz Arjona, and Sonia …
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Claim 7: “A single large tropical tree provides as much cooling as several air conditioners running continuously.”
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Claim 8: “Tropical forests are hot, steamy places.”
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Claim 9: “Tropical deforestation reduces the cooling effect forests provide, leading to local warming.”
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Claim 10: “More than 300 million people were exposed to higher temperatures caused by deforestation.”
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Claim 11: “Brazil is setting up a new fund that will pay tropical nations to keep their forests intact.”
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