ECOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
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Detailed explanation-1: -In addition, Central Asia is already being impacted by climate change, which is expected to significantly worsen over the next decade. Floods, drought and landslides caused by temperature increases and the melting of Himalayan glaciers will constitute major threats to human security in the region.
Detailed explanation-2: -The main factors contributing to ecosystem degradation in Central Asia are desertification and drought.
Detailed explanation-3: -ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN CENTRAL ASIA Too many animals on too little land has resulted in desertification and soil erosion. Over-irrigation has encrusted the land with silt and salt. Inefficient irrigation, leakage from canals and salinization in the cotton-growing regions have produced acres of salt marshes.
Detailed explanation-4: -Central Asia has a distinctive continental arid and semi-arid climate with hot, cloudless, dry summers and moist, relatively warm winters in the south and cold winters with severe frosts in the north.