Horse heat waves and dust storms in Pakistan. Giant craters that swallow houses in Maranhão, Brazil. In the “More World” this Thursday, we show how the extreme climate, coupled with human action, is putting entire communities at risk.
Located just a few dozen kilometers from the border with Iran, the millennial Pakistani City of Gwadar It’s changing. The climate is transforming this area, once rich in sea resources, which is now increasingly victims of the problems typical of the remote island nations.
Cornered between the Arabic sea and the arid and mountainous interior of the province of Baluchistanthe city is at the Extreme Climate Change Epicenter. High temperatures favor devastating droughtsinterspersed with periods of diluvian rainfall that drag land to the sea and are disfiguring and modifying the forms of the peninsula.
The demographic explosion of the last decades and the disorderly construction has caused another problem, when interfering with the natural drainage of a region already prone to saltwater infiltration.
Giant craters threaten swallow inhabitants of Maranhão
There are several names for this phenomenon – craters, Sumidouringsor simply holes. Whatever the designation, the result is devastating in Buriticupuin the Brazilian state of Maranhão.
The Sumidour, it is necessary to explain, do not appear in any type of terrainbut in Buriticupu There are all the propitious conditions to your formation. Between scientific discourse and the simplest explanations, The population remains unansweredwhile seeing the earth disappears under the feet and feels the real threat of lose the floor.
After the arrival of the first sinks to the inhabited areas of Buriticupu, the calamity. Part of the families has been resolved, often with areas considered greatest risk of new collapse. In this municipality they live around 50 thousand peoplewhich face the daily risk of being swallowed by the land.
