A state of emergency was declared in Bolivia to combat the risks posed by El Nino

Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz announced that he declared an emergency to raise funds to combat the effects of the El Nino weather event, which causes major disasters around the world.

Addressing the nation, President Paz said that with this decision, they aim to increase the number of rescue teams in the regions most affected by disasters in Bolivia, which is struggling with floods on the one hand and drought on the other.

Paz said, "This is a natural event that will have very severe effects in terms of drought and floods, and we need the cooperation of all institutions." he said.

SIX OUT OF 9 ADMINISTRATIVE REGIONS ARE IN THE CLAW OF DROUGHT

In Peru, one of Bolivia's neighbors, where 78 thousand families lived in the grip of drought in six of the nine administrative regions and more than 75 thousand cattle perished for the same reason, rising temperatures and forest fires caused the death of at least 12 people, and in Chile, the capital Santiago experienced the wettest October on record.

“IT MAY REACH UNPRECEDENTED VIOLENCE”

El Niño warms surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, causing changes in wind, pressure and precipitation patterns around the world.

The United Nations (UN), which issued a warning on the subject this week, stated that the current El Niño could reach an "unprecedented" intensity that could lead to disasters in Latin America, eastern and southern Africa, and Asia and the Pacific regions.

A TEMPERATURE RECORD WAS BREAKED IN THE PACIFIC IN SEPTEMBER

The European Union's (EU) climate monitoring agency, Copernicus Climate Change Service, reported that the El Nino weather event, which increased in intensity, broke the temperature record in a key region of the Pacific Ocean in September.

Copernicus Climate Change Service announced that the sea surface temperature in the monitoring region known as Nino3.4, which is considered an El Nino indicator in the Pacific Ocean, reached an "all-time high" last month, reaching 29.70 degrees.

The EU monitoring agency stated that this value exceeded even the peak temperatures of the strong El Nino periods of 1982-1983, 1997-1998 and 2015-2016, and stated that this table "reveals the extraordinary severity of the current El Nino".