Explain how deforestation leads to reduced rainfall.
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Deforestation leads to reduced rainfall because it leads to reduction in natural recycling of moisture from the soils. This recycling takes place through vegetation and returns back in the form of rainfall. ... When there is heavy rainfall, the rain water does not seep down into the ground and is not absorbed by the tress.
Removal of trees and plant life from a particular area for the construction of Industries, agriculture and other purposes is termed as Deforestation. Photosynthesis, in plant life, takes place by the absorption of CO2 from the earth’s atmosphere. When the plant life is destroyed, the Carbon Dioxide levels in the atmosphere will increase drastically leading trap of heat radiations which causes global warming. This rise in temperature will affect the water cycle. Disturbance in the water cycle will lead to a chain of events and in the end, the rainfall pattern changes and results in droughts.