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Main article: 2010 Russian Wildfires

"Environmental groups and opposition politicians suggested firefighting has been slowed down by the Forest Code law passed by the Duma in 2006 at the order of Putin." was plagarized from the WWF. I corrected this by sourcing the quote to the WWF. In addition, I linked the text "WWF" to the Wikipedia page about the WWF.

Added text "According to the director of the Global Fire Monitoring Centre (GFMC) Johann Goldammer, the wildfires were caused by "negligent [human] behaviour", such as lighting barbecues and fireworks in a densely wooded area. ^[11]Such human activity, coupled with the unusually high temperatures over the Russian territories, catalyzed this record disturbance." to attribute cause of the wildfire to human activity, since this important factor was not mentioned elsewhere in the article. I also added a source to the relevant article from the scientific journal "Nature".

Main article: Malin Landslide

Added " Deforestation removes not only trees, but also root structures that hold together the soil.^[9] Through deforestation, the soil of the surrounding land was made loose, and experts argue that deforestation was the primary undelying anthropogenic cause of the landslide.^[10]".

Sources this information to a news article about the landslide, and a scientific article about the effects of deforestation.

Main Article: 2013 European floods

Added "Climate scientists have estimated that the flooding regime, which has prior inflicted severe flooding once every 50 years, to become more frequent, and cause severe flooding once every 30 years. The cost of flooding in the European continent, which currently causes an estimated 4.9 billion Euros of damage per year, is expected to increase to 23.5 billion Euros per year. " to the page about the 2013 european floods, in order to put in context of the flooding regime, and the predicted increase in frequency in the coming decades. I cited one figure to the journal "The Scientific American", and the other to a scientific article from the journal "Nature". In addition, I could not find instances of outright plagarism, but I did cite one person's uncited information about the storm that caused the flooding, citing "Storm2k".

Main Article: April 2015 Nepal earthquake

Added text: "According to geological models, the frequency and intensity of future landslides in the Langtang Valley is due to increase in the coming decades. This is attributable directly to the effect of the earthquake, which caused widespread fracturing in the grounds of the Langtang area. " This was added to enhance the reader's understanding of the geological context of future landslides, and to show how closely related the two disturbances are. I cited the journal nature, as well as a scientific article on the connection between an increase in landslides after an earthquake. Also, I found significant plagarism in one of the paragraphs, which said: "Disastrous events in very poor and politically paralyzed nations such as Nepal often become a long drawn out chain of events, in that one disaster feeds into another for years or even decades upon end. The aftereffects from the earthquake have knock-on effects on a myriad of seemingly unrelated aspects: human trafficking, labour cost and availability, rental and property cost burdens, urbanization, private and public debt burdens, mental health, politics, tourism, disease, and damage to the healthcare system." This was corrected when I sourced the origin of the quote. Then, I added to the talk page.