Post: #2
Title: Re: Is Sudan doomed to become 'uninhabitable ØŸ
Author: Hassan Farah
Date: 12-09-2017, 09:57 AM
Parent: #1
Climate change could render Sudan 'uninhabitable'
(CNN)Sudan's ecosystems and natural resources are deteriorating.
Temperatures are rising, water supplies are scarce, soil fertility is low and severe droughts are common. After years of desertification, its rich biodiversity is under threat and drought has hindered the fight against hunger.
This burden is affecting not only the country's food security and sustainable development, but also the homes of many Sudanese families.
Dust storms -- known locally as "Haboob" -- have also increased in this region. Moving like a gigantic thick wall, it carries sand and dust -- burying homes, increasing evaporation to a region that's struggling to preserve water supplies, as well as eroding valuable fertile soil.
Experts say that without quick intervention, parts of the African country -- one of the most vulnerable in the world -- could become uninhabitable as a result of climate change.
Increasing temperature
North Africa is already hot and is strongly increasing in temperature. At some point in this century, part of the region will become uninhabitable," Jos Lelieveld, a climate scientist from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, told CNN.
"That will string from Morocco all the way through to Saudi Arabia," he said.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/07/africa/sudan-climate-change/index.html
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