Asia is projected to be hit harder by climate change than anywhere, and this year clearly showed why. Here are some of the climate change disasters that ravaged the world’s most populous continent in 2019. Asia may be the region most vulnerable to climate change, but the myriad of environmental and social ills communities across the disaster-prone continent grapple with, ranging from rivers clogged with waste to runaway development, exacerbate the impacts of a changing climate. And as the globe warms, it is those lacking the resources to cope who suffer the most. Climate refugees, long a term only found in climate change reports, are now on the move, fleeing droughts, heat and rising seas. Here are some of the climate disasters that ravaged Asia this year:

1. India and Pakistan baked in a heatwave
2. Chennai was hit by a water crisis
3. Torrential rains lashed Bangladesh, Nepal, India and Pakistan
4. The mighty Mekong teetered on the brink of collapse
5. Rising seas engulfed Indonesia’s coastline
6. Indonesia’s forests were ablaze
7. Powerful storms slammed into the Philippines

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