The U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization and its Center for International Forestry Research say there’s no link between deforestation and major floods. Its report showed no increase in the frequency and extent of major floods, despite massive global logging. The U.N. did say that systematic logging plays a role in smaller floods and in losing fertile topsoil.

AN interesting perspective on flood control was presented by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation and the Centre for International Forestry Research this week. Researchers say there is no basis for the widely held belief that deforestation causes major flooding, reported the BBC.

Deforestation and logging do not increase the risk of major floods, according to a new report.

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Center for International Forestry Research (Cifor) say the evidence shows no link. Loss of forest cover does play a role in smaller floods and in the loss of fertile topsoil, it says.