Temperature rise causes devastating flash floods, avalanches in Mongolia

Mongolians have started to bear the brunt of climate change and global warming as their country now suffers from extreme flash floods caused by frozen lakes whose ice layer has not been thick enough to prevent a glacier break off.

A rescuer of Mongolia’s national emergency response agency said that, according to the Meteorological Agency, December of 2021 was among the warmest months the East Asia country has ever witnessed, adding that the ice covering frozen lakes and rivers was 5-50 cm thinner than average.

He sounded the alarm on the issue, saying in 2021, the authorities reported 16 cases of ice avalanches that claimed the lives of four.