History---Cause---Effects on Different Parts of the World---Case Studies of South East Asia Countries

Effects on Different Parts of the World

    Eastern Australia

• Dry conditions resulted in severe droughts and in huge dust storms, one of which deposited 11,000 tons of topsoil on the city of Melbourne.
• Forest fires
• Crop failure
• Animal feed supplies were so diminished that thousands of sheep, dying of starvation.

    Indonesia

• Raging forest fires
• Crop failure
• Droughts
• Famines
• Outbreak of diseases due to the shortage of clean water

    Singapore and Malaysia

• Worst haze conditions because the dry Indonesia forests burn quickly, and there is no enough rainfall to extinguish the fires
• Dip in water reserves

    California

• Unseasonal Pacific hurricanes
• More Pacific hurricanes
• Flooding
• Increased sandbag sales and water proofing of roofs
• Elephant seal pups drown because the pupping beaches are severely flooded

    Caribbean, US East Coast

• Fewer and milder Atlantic hurricanes

    Peru

• Warmer coastal waters, causing the nutrients to stay in cooler, deeper waters
• Anchovies do not appear, and coral reefs die
• Industries which rely on anchovies to produce poultry feed supplement suffer
• Sea birds such as pelicans starve
• Heavy rains cause floods that results failure of cotton crops and property losses, totalling approximately $400 million

    Chile

• Floods
• Mudslides
• Better chances for fishermen to catch larger, pelagic fish

Parts of information in this section has been extracted from the articles in "The Straits Times" newspapers

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