Overall Orange alert Drought for Southeast Asia-2024
in Bangladesh, China, India, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam

Event summary

The drought has lasted for 3 months. Drought indicators suggest anomalies typical of severe to extreme events.

GDACS ID DR 1017005
Name: Southeast Asia-2024
Glide number: DR-2024-000057-VNM
Countries: Bangladesh, China, India, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam
Start Date: End of Feb 2024
Duration: 126 days
Impact: Medium impact for agricultural drought in 1333670 km2
More info: Global Drought Observatory

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A report raised concerns about the impacts of climate change in India, which has caused erratic monsoons that significantly affect over 120 million farmers. In a recent Nature World News interview with experts about the impacts of extreme w
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Development Alternatives and ICIMOD forge long-term partnership to bui ... 2024-06-23T08:18+0200.

New Delhi, India/ Kathmandu, Nepal 21 June 2024. The impacts of climate change are increasingly being felt across the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region, with more frequent and extreme heatwaves, floods, droughts and landslides, while changes
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MIL-OSI NGOs: In ten worst-hit countries, increasing floods and drough ... 2024-06-21T20:51+0200.

Hunger nearly tripled in five of these countries over the same period Water-related disasters forced people to flee from their homes nearly eight million separate times in 10 of the world’s worst-hit countries last year, with many having to
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Giornata mondiale rifugiati, Oxfam: “Nei 10 Paesi più colpiti da inond ... 2024-06-20T17:35+0200.

“Nei 10 dei Paesi più colpiti al mondo dall’alternarsi di inondazioni e siccità sempre più frequenti e devastanti, il numero di sfollati è più che raddoppiato nell’ultimo decennio . Solo nel 2023 centinaia di migliaia di persone sono state
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: (2), EC-JRC (36), WMO (1), INFORM (2),