Central Indian floods have tripled: study
Violent floods in central India have tripled since 1950, according to researchers who warned Tuesday of worse to come while offering hope for predicting them better in future.
The region of about half-a-billion people is regularly stricken by flash floods, landslides and torrential rains that kill thousands and displace millions of people, as well as drowning crops and livestock.
The team also succeeded in tracking down the main culprit: moisture from the Arabian Sea in the north of the Indian Ocean. s climate change continues to warm the ocean, the frequency and severity of killer storms in India are likely to increase, the team said.
According to the study, there were 268 floods in India between 1950 and 2015, killing almost 70,000 people and leaving about 17 million homeless. Central India was one of the hardest-hit areas, even as it also struggles with dwindling regular rainfall, also blamed in part on the warming Indian Ocean.
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