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Africa: Droughts Are Causing Record Devastation Worldwide, UN-Backed Report Reveals
GLOBAL, JUL 21 – The UN report warns that 90 million people in Eastern and Southern Africa face acute hunger and energy blackouts worsen in Zambia amid global drought impacts on trade and ecosystems.
- A global assessment of drought impacts found that a new United Nations report revealed unprecedented drought devastation, ranking among the most severe in history from 2023 to 2025.
- Experts warn that continued environmental degradation, with deforestation and fires in the Amazon Basin, drives the crisis, as the UN-backed report highlights.
- Meanwhile, low water levels in the Panama Canal caused a one-third decline in transit, disrupting global trade and affecting supply chains.
- In the Amazon Basin, mass fish kills and endangered dolphins disrupt drinking water and transport for hundreds of thousands.
- The report recommends strengthening early warning systems, drought monitoring, nature-based solutions, off-grid energy, alternative water supply systems, and global cooperation.
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The most widespread and devastating droughts have occurred since 2023 around the world, and have continued in 2025, leaving serious consequences. The report, entitled Drought Hotspots Around the World 2023-2025, published with support from the United Nations (UN), provides an overview of how droughts exacerbate poverty, hunger, energy insecurity and ecosystem functioning.
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Droughts are causing record devastation worldwide, UN-backed report reveals
Droughts are causing record devastation worldwide, UN-backed report reveals Worldwide, some of the most widespread and damaging drought events in recorded history have occurred in recent years due to climate change and resource depletion. This is according to a new report from the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), the U.S. National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) and the International Drought Resilience Alliance on the global imp…
UN-backed Report Warns Of A Global Record-Breaking Drought Devastation - The Canadian Media
#Droughts#Drought Devastation#climate change Worldwide, some of the most widespread and damaging drought events in recorded history have occurred in recent years due to climate change and resource depletion. This is according to a new report from the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), the U.S. National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) and the International Drought Resilience
Image generated by AI Drought infiltrates, drains resources and devastates lives in slow motion, alerts a new report of the convention against desertification, which warns of the economic impact and devastation of this phenomenon increasingly frequent and lasting because of climate change.New York.
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