In the Philippines, about 1,400 people are feared to be buried dead following last week’s landslide that put an entire village under 100 feet of mud. Rescuers have been digging toward a school building believed to contain some 200 students and 40 teachers, but they don’t expect to find any survivors. Environmental groups have blamed the disaster in part on rampant commercial logging that has stripped the country of most of its trees and left the topsoil on mountains vulnerable to landslides. The Philippines has among the world’s highest levels of deforestation.