New Delhi, Aug. 7 -- As Assam once again battles devastating floods that have affected lakhs of people and claimed over 90 lives, experts attribute the crisis to three converging factors: climate change, Himalayan warming, and a river system undergoing rapid transformation.
Scientists say the floods are no longer driven by heavy monsoon rainfall alone but by changing river dynamics, accelerating erosion, and expanding settlements in flood-prone areas, making floods more frequent, unpredictable and destructive.
Floods in Assam are increasingly the result of compound flooding, where multiple drivers occur simultaneously, they add.
Nearly 40 per cent of the state's land is flood-prone, while the sediment-laden Brahmaputra continuously shift...