Study – DW – 08/08/2025

PakistanThe seasonal rain may be heavier due to ClimateA new study was found, making floods more dangerous.

the A report from the chain of global weatherA group of international scientists studying global warming in harsh weather were released on Thursday.

Monsoon rain in Pakistan, which usually occurs from June to September, is changing. The country recorded more than a third of rain, or 36 %, in July of this year than last year, according to the country’s meteorological department.

But rain is about 10 % to 15 % due to climate change, according to researchers in the First World War, who analyzed the rains from June 24 to July 23 in Pakistan.

Climate scientists say the warmer atmosphere carries more moisture, which may make rain more intense.

“Each degree of temperature will lead to heavier seasonal rains,” said Mariam Zakaria, author of the WWA study and an environmental researcher at Imperial College London.

Pakistan is vulnerable to deadly floods

The government of Pakistan has reported at least 300 deaths, or nearly half of them, due to floods, heavy rains and the other weather between June 26 and August 3, 2025.

Most of the victims were crushed through the collapse of buildings.

The report indicated that the urban expansion in Pakistan, where people often live in temporary homes in the areas exposed to floods, makes the country of South Asia especially weak in the seasonal wind season.

“Half of Pakistan in urban areas live in fragile settlements where floods and costs collapse,” Maga Felberg of the Red Crescent Red Cross Center, which also helped compose the report of the First World War report. “Building flood consuming houses and avoiding construction in flooding areas will help reduce the effects of heavy monsoon rain.”

Pakistan, with a population of 250 million, has witnessed many severe monsoon windy seasons, which led to wide and destructive floods.

This year’s flood comes after the catastrophic high water in 2022 witnessed that more than 1700 people were dying during the monsoons.

Earlier this week, the Disaster Management Authority in Pakistan issued new alerts of floods, and warned that precipitation may enlarge the main rivers and lead to flashes in the upper and central areas.

South Asia beaten with heavy monsoon winds

Heavy seasonal winds have resulted in a series of disasters that struck South Asia, especially the Himalayas, in the past few months.

Earlier this week, a A village in northern India was wounded by floods and landslidesAt least four people were killed and hundreds are missing.

The ice lakes that overflow to the floods that wash a main bridge connecting Nepal and China, along with many electrical power dams in July.

Edited by: Sean Siniko