At least 25 people dead in central Venezuela landslide after days of torrential rain and floods

Flooding and days of torrential rain has led to landslide that swept through a town in central Venezuela near Caracas, the capital. It left at least 25 people dead with reports of more than 52 people are also missing. It happened after the banks of five small rivers burst after relentless rain. The cascading waters along with rainfall from surrounding mountains deposited large amounts of mud, rocks, debris and large trees through neighborhoods. Vice president Delcy Rodriguez of Venezuela said one of the worst hit areas was the community of Tejerias. This is located about 40 miles southwest of Caracas. These led to damages to businesses and farmland. The force of the moving water carried away the pumps normally used to power the community's drinking water system. At least 25 killed as landslide caused by floods tears through Venezuelan town. These deaths bring the total number of lives lost in recent weeks to at least 40. The reason is the heavy rains due to the La Nina weather pattern.

The priority for the administration now is to locate people still trapped under mud and rocks throughout the town. In the meantime. The military and rescue personnel are trying to locate survivors. The vice president speaking from a flooded street in Tejerias said - "We have lost boys, girls. What has happened in the town of Tejerias is a tragedy." The state television channel carried images of muddy streets filled with tangled tree branches and large rocks. It seems one of the flooded rivers, the El Pato, swept away several houses and shops.

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#greencover #treeplanting #environmentalists At every step there are fears that the green cover is depleting because mankind is felling trees and systematically ripping up forests with a result that the green cover is vanishing. But, environmentalists can now rest assured – our planet Earth today is actually greener than it was a decade ago.
This has been revealed in dailymail.co.uk dated 6 April 2015.
In one of the latest studies scientists have calculated that the total vegetation on the planet has increased substantially between 2003 and 2012. It is a fact that tropical jungles are still disappearing being felled for timber and to make way for cattle pasture, the tree growth in other places has compensated and outstripped the loss.

The area of ground covered by plants has increased in Russia, China, Australia and Africa, leading to a net gain in vegetation cover. Some of this is a result of deliberate conservation like huge tree-planting campaign by the Chinese.
In other places, it was attributable to high rainfalls that resulted in faster growth of shrubs and grasses on the plains of Africa, northern Australia and South America.
Moreover, the abandonment of large agricultural areas following the collapse of the Soviet Union has led to forests reclaiming farmland.
The study was carried out by an Australian team and they have found that the ‘greening effect’ has been so substantial that the world’s trees and plants are storing 4billion more tonnes of carbon than they were a decade before.
The results have been compiled by scientists after analyzing 20 years of satellite data and the findings have come after decades of warnings about environmental catastrophe being caused by deforestation.
The results of the study are published in the journal Nature Climate Change.

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