Drought, deforestation in exacerbate COVID-19 impact: U of T researcher

With the dry season ending across the rainforest, scientists and researchers are once again assessing the damage in a region where tree removal, clearing of exposed land for farming and severe drought are combining to put the lives of populations – many of them Indigenous – at risk. But there’s now also a new threat to contend with: COVID-19. 

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