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\n Heavy rainfall that triggered floods in Pakistan in recent weeks<\/a>, killing hundreds of people, was worsened by human-caused climate change, according to a new study.\n <\/p>\n \n The study<\/a> by World Weather Attribution, a group of international scientists who study global warming\u2019s role in extreme weather, found that rainfall from June 24 to July 23 in the South Asian nation was 10% to 15% heavier because of climate change, leading to many building collapses in urban and rural Pakistan.\n <\/p>\n \n Pakistan\u2019s government has reported at least 300 deaths and 1,600 damaged houses due to the floods, heavy rain and other weather since June 26.\n <\/p>\n \n Saqib Hassan, a 50-year-old businessman in northern Pakistan, said flooding on July 22 destroyed his home and 18 of his relatives\u2019 homes, along with their dairy farms. His farm animals were washed away, resulting in heavy losses \u2014 likely 100 million rupees ($360,000) \u2014 for him and his family.\n <\/p>\n \n Last-minute announcements from a nearby mosque were the only warning they got to evacuate their homes in the small town of Sarwarabad and get to higher ground.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cWe are homeless now. Our houses have been destroyed. All the government has given us is food rations worth 50,000 rupees ($177) and seven tents, where we\u2019ve been living for the past two weeks,\u201d Hassan told The Associated Press over the phone.\n <\/p>\n \n High temperatures and intense precipitation worsened by global warming have accelerated the pace of recent extreme weather events faster than climate experts expected, said Islamabad-based climate scientist Jakob Steiner, who was not part of the WWA study.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cIn the last few weeks, we have been scrambling to look at the number of events, not just in Pakistan, but in the South Asian region that have baffled us,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cMany events we projected to happen in 2050 have happened in 2025, as temperatures this summer, yet again, have been far above the average,\u201d said Steiner, a geoscientist with the University of Graz, Austria, who studies water resources and associated risks in mountain regions.\n <\/p>\n \n Heavy monsoon rains<\/a> have resulted in a series of disasters<\/a> that have battered South Asia, especially the Himalayan mountains, which span across five countries, in the last few months.\n <\/p>\n \n Overflowing glacial lakes resulted in flooding that washed away a key bridge connecting Nepal and China<\/a>, along with several hydropower dams in July. Earlier this week, a village in northern India was hit by floods<\/a> and landslides, killing at least four people and leaving hundreds missing.\n <\/p>\n \n The authors of the WWA study, which was released early Thursday, said that the rainfall they analyzed in Pakistan shows that climate change is making floods more dangerous. Climate scientists have found that a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture, which can make rain more intense.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cEvery tenth of a degree of warming will lead to heavier monsoon rainfall, highlighting why a rapid transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy is so urgent,\u201d said Mariam Zachariah, a researcher at the Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London and lead author of the WWA study.\n <\/p>\n ![\"Saqib](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ap25219078058267.jpg\")
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