Recent droughts are ‘slow-moving global catastrophe’

From Somalia to the mainland Europe, some of the most dried droughts have been seen in the history recorded over the last two years, according to a United Nations report, has become worse than climate change.

Describing the drought as a “silent killer”, which “creeps into drains in resources, and destroys life in slow pace” report states that it enhanced issues such as poverty and ecosystem.

The report highlighted the impacts in Africa, Mediterranean, Latin America and Southeast Asia, which includes an estimated 4.4 million people in Somalia, facing crisis-level food insecurity earlier this year.

This recommends governments to prepare for “new general”, with measures including strong initial warning systems.

The founding director of the US National Drought Mitigation Center, Dr. Mark Swoboda said, “This is a slow -moving global destruction, which I have ever seen.”

“This report underlines how drought affects life, livelihood and health of ecosystems that we all depend on.”

Dried hotspots around the world identify the most severely affected areas from 2023 to 2025.

During this time, the warming effects of climate change were made worse by one El NinoA natural climate phenomenon that affects the global weather patterns.

An El Nino occurs when surface water in the eastern and central tropical Pacific Ocean is abnormally warmed.

It often leads to drying conditions in southern Africa, southeast Asia, northern South America and parts of South-East Australia.

For example, the pressure from humans, the use of irrigation in agriculture has also put pressure on water resources.

As of January 2023, the worst drought in 70 years killed the horn of Africa, which had been coming in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia since the failed rainy season.

After this, there were deaths In 2022, 43,000 people estimated to have drought -related hunger in Somalia.

African wildlife was also affected, stranded on the banks of the dry river with hippos in Botswana, and elephants put them in Namibia to feed hungry communities in Zimbabwe and Namibia and to prevent overgraising.

The report states how the drought hit the world’s weakest people, including women, including women, often have far -reaching effects on society.

In four regions of East Africa, forcibly forcibly hit baby marriages, the most difficult from drought, as the families scrambled to secure the dowry to survive, noted this.

“The sexual tantra we saw during this drought became rapidly frustrated,” said Paula Gastello. “The girls pulled from school and forced them to marry, were getting dark in hospitals, and families are just signs of serious crisis – to find contaminated water to dig hole in the dry river.”

While lower-medium-come countries have the brunt of destruction, no one can be decent, the report states how two years of drought and record cutting cuts cut Spain’s olive crop in half.

In the Amazon basin, record low water levels and kills fish and puts dolphins at greater risk and also kills drinking water supply for hundreds of thousands of people.

And drought also had an impact on world trade – between October 2023 and January 2024, the water level in the Panama Canal fell so much that the daily ship transit fell from 38 to 24.

“Drought is not just a weather phenomenon-it can be a social, economic and environmental emergency,” the co-writer of the report, Dr. Kelly Helm Smith said.

“The question is not whether this will happen again, but will we be better ready next time.”