SEVERE FLOODS DEVASTATED SOUTHWESTERN INDIA. AND IT’S NOT JUST BECAUSE OF THE MONSOONS.
August 28, 2018
Floods in southwestern India have killed more than 350 people and stranded thousands since the monsoon season arrived earlier this summer. But the heavy rainfall only contributed to the much larger cause of this disaster, according to Auroop Ganguly, a civil and environmental engineering professor at Northeastern who studies extreme weather trends.