Author: Dominick Spracklen, Professor of Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions, University of Leeds

Dominick Spracken, CC BY-ND Tropical forests are hot, steamy places. But when large numbers of trees are cut down, they get even hotter. 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, […]