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Indonesia: The impact of deforestation and extreme weather

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October 29, 2021

Climate change already poses a real and present existential threat to ecosystems and people who depend on them. DW's Georg Matthes met villagers in West Java still suffering the aftermath of a fatal landslide in 2019.

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