Bangladeaths
Seventeen people from a Bangladeshi wedding party have been killed, and another fourteen injured, as several bolts of lightning hit the group while they were disembarking from a boat.
Experts say deforestation has played a part in the rising number deadly lightning strikes due to the disappearance of many tall trees that before would have drawn lightning strikes.
At first, this explanation seems to contradict the Indian Meteorological Department's, that the increase in deaths through lightning strike is the result of climate change. But the two are related, in a short- versus long-term manner.
Removing trees eliminates their lightning-drawing ability in the short-term. In the long-term, it contributes to environmental and meteorological destabilisation.
So, yeah, don't chop down trees, kids.