Economic losses from droughts, floods and landslides have skyrocketed in Asia. In 2021 alone, weather and water-related hazards caused total damage worth US$35.6 billion and affected almost 50 million people
As delegates at the COP27 climate conference discuss the common problem of climate change, each country will face its own unique challenges and threats.
The past eight years have been the hottest on record, aided by concentrations of greenhouse gases, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned as it kicked off the annual climate summit in a southern Egyptian coastal city.
The drought, which affected large parts of Europe, China and the United States, is now at risk of occurring every 20 years, with the current climate, instead of every 400 years or even longer
The Pensilungpa Glacier (PG), located in Zanskar, Ladakh, is receding, and a recent study has attributed the retreat to increased temperatures and decreased rainfall during winters.
The experts of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) warn, in their most recent report, that almost half of the world's population is "highly vulnerable" to climate change
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