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DUBAI: Droughts have become an “unprecedented emergency” on a global scale and the massive impacts of human-induced droughts are “only starting to unf...

Drought is starting to unfold as an unprecedented planetary-scale emergency, the United Nations has warned. A new Global Drought Snapshot report released by…

Central Asia is one of the most vulnerable regions of the world to climate changes. The region, characterized by drought, sharp temperature fluctuations and low precipitation, as well as heterogeneous distribution of resources, is particularly vulnerable to climate change. According to the United Nations Development Program, the average annual temperature in Central Asia has increased […]

Drought is claiming more lives than ever before, as well as causing more economic loss and seriously affecting some areas of society, a report states.

<p>Recent drought-related data based on research in the past two years and compiled by the UN point to &ldquo;an unprecedented emergency on a planetary scale, where the massive impacts of human-induced droughts are only starting to unfold. According to the report, <em>&lsquo;Global Drought Snapshot,&rsquo;</em> launched by the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) at the outset of COP28 climate talks in the UAE, few if any hazard claims more lives, causes more economic loss and affects more sectors of societies than drought.</p> <p>&nbsp;...