Torrential rains continue to cause widespread destruction in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. © BIJU BORO/AFP via Getty Images Mudslides and flooding in South Africa
– At least 10 people, including a four-year-old child have died in floods and landslides this week after unusually heavy rains pummelled several parts of India, as forecasters warned on May 18 of more deluges. A man carrying his bicycle crosses a damaged road due to flooding after heavy rains in Nagaon, Assam, on May 19, 2022. About 700000 people are impacted due to flooding across 22 districts in Assam. Villagers wade through a flooded road after heavy rains in the Hojai district of India’s Assam state. © SERGIO MARANHAO/AFP via Getty Images Floods in Assam, India A man carries a mattress after a landslide in the community Vila dos Milagres in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil, Flooding and landslides triggered by torrential rain have killed at least 106 people in northeastern Brazil. Flooding and Landsliding in Brazilįlooding and landslides triggered by torrential rain have killed at least 106 people in northeastern Brazil. – Every day dozens of villagers, mostly women and children, wait with blue plastic jerry cans and metal pots for a special train bringing precious water to people suffering a heatwave in India’s desert state of Rajasthan.
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Shivaram, a villager walking through the cracked bottom of a dried-out pond on a hot summer day at Bandai village in Pali district. Heat wave in North IndiaĪ serious heatwave gripped India this week, forecasting deadly temperatures across the region with the hottest March in 122 years and the average rainfall of the season is at its third-lowest. Until world leaders come together and commit to ambitious actions for climate and social equity, no one is safe.
What is scary is to see, how governments are accepting this as the new normal. This is not only in India many parts of the world are facing extreme weather events, as can be seen through these photos bearing witness to climate change in different parts of the world in the last few months. The people most impacted are the poorest of them all – daily wagers, delivery boys, roadside vendors and anyone who can’t afford swanky air conditioners.Ĭlimate change is bad for everyone but it is worse for the poor. Things have been building up in the last few years but the heat in India this summer has been absolutely unbearable. I could have fainted today for sure,” a roadside vendor had said to me in Delhi.
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