Forty-eight percent of the world went through at least one month of extreme drought in 2023.
Nyakuma and her husband Sunday, who live in a village in South Sudan, struggle to find food due to drought
The new study offers some of the most up-to-date global data on drought, marking just how fast it is accelerating.The threshold for extreme drought is reached after six months of very low rainfall or very high levels of evaporation from plants and soil - or both. In the past 10 years, 61% of the world saw an increase in extreme rainfall, when compared with a baseline average from 1961-1990.
Drought exposed 151 million more people to food insecurity last year, compared with the 1990s, which has contributed to malnutrition. Heat-related deaths for over 65s also increased by 167% compared to the 1990s. Since 2020, an extreme and exceptional agricultural drought has gripped northeast Syria and parts of Iraq.In the past few years, Hasakah, a city of one million people, has run out of clean water.
Clothes go unwashed and families can’t bathe their children properly, meaning skin diseases and diarrhoea are widespread.
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