Over the past three years, floods have claimed victims in Central and South Asia
On May 11, the UN office announced the death of 300 people due to floods in Afghanistan. The death toll as a result of floods in Afghanistan has exceeded 300 people, more than 1,000 houses have been destroyed, the UN World Food Program (WFP) Office X in the emirate reported on social media. At the end of June 2022, 400 people were killed in Afghanistan due to floods in Kabul, Nangarhar, Khost, Paktika and other Afghan provinces. A day earlier, Khost and Paktika were hit by a devastating earthquake that killed at least 1,000 people. The AP reports that such extreme weather may be linked to climate change. Thus, in April 2024, Baluchistan (a Pakistani province) received 353% more rain than usual. Pakistani officials are calling this the wettest April in 30 years.
Dagestan, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan announced an environmental disaster in the Caspian Sea
The water level in the Caspian Sea is rapidly decreasing; since 1996, the water level in the Caspian Sea has dropped by almost three meters. Fishing is rapidly declining, ships cannot enter the port due to shallowing. Some scientists call the situation with the Caspian shallowing catastrophic. The water level has dropped so much that shipping in the port of Makhachkala is increasingly stopped after a storm. And these days the ships are in the roadstead near Makhachkala because they cannot enter the port – the canals are covered with sand.