UN Issues Global Alert to Combat Severe Sand and Dust Storms AfricaClimateCrisis: Africa
). These particles can travel for hundreds and occasionally thousands of miles when carried by wind.
Increasing desertification as a result of human-driven activity, has led to an increase in the number of storms, making the need for international action to mitigate their damaging effects more urgent.SDS threaten the environment, agriculture, human health, and transportation infrastructure, which can all complicate the effort to reach the internationally-agreed UN, particularly in Africa and the Middle East where desertification is most common.
High numbers of particulate matter in the atmosphere can also cause heart disorders, eye and skin irritation as well as respiratory diseases like meningitis to spread more easily. The impacts of SDS on agriculture further threatens food security in populations already struggling with severe desertification and drought.Climate change-related issues have increased the frequency and intensity of SDS.
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