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Northern Bulgaria is under highest risk of flooding

published on 9/3/24 4:35 PM

Photo: Vasko Vrachovski

The part of the country most threatened by floods is Northern Bulgaria. This is shown by the data in both scenarios for an increase in average temperatures - by 3.9 and by 2.5 degrees by the year 2100, according to projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change at the United Nations.

"Regardless of which part of the country is most affected by climate change, the financial losses will affect almost the whole of Bulgaria," said Prof. Emil Gachev from the Institute for Climate, Atmosphere and Water Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

The research also shows that in Bulgaria there is no change in precipitation towards an increase or decrease, but in the way the precipitation falls - for the same amount, it is concentrated in fewer but more intense precipitations. The change is unfavourable because the soil fails to absorb the water and this provokes the occurrence of unpleasant processes such as erosion, floods, destruction by high waves.

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