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What explains the disastrous floods in Pakistan this year? -Sandipan Talukdar

-Peoples' Dispatch

A convergence of factors such as extreme heat waves, melting glaciers, and heavy monsoon rainfall explains the scale of floods in the country. All these factors are connected to climate change

Floods have devastated Pakistan this year, with 33 million people affected and more than 1,200 killed. Rivers breaching their banks coupled with the bursting of glacial lakes inundated almost one-third of the country, causing a massive economic loss. Recovery from such calamities is a long process, and Pakistan will also have to face the same fate. Along with the efforts to mend the losses, it is also essential to examine the factors that have led to such a disaster.

According to researchers, a combination of several factors that linked with global warming and climate change gravely worsened Pakistan’s flooding .

The first contributor to Pakistan’s mayhem is the extreme heat waves.

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