Southeast Asia hit by extreme heat wave

Thousands of fish are victims of the drought hitting Vietnam. For several weeks, the country has been crushed by heat, with peaks of 44°C. During the month of April, more than 100 temperature records were broken. This historic heat wave is now affecting all of Southeast Asia. In Thailand, the numerous delivery men on motorbikes cope as best they can with the suffocating traffic of the capital Bangkok.

Crops burned

“Every year the weather gets hotter and hotter. It’s getting really, really difficult to ride a motorcycle.“, confides a man. These extreme temperatures, usual for the season, are accentuated by global warming, but also by the El Niño phenomenon, according to experts. In the Philippines, agricultural lands have not received rain since last November In the fields, the soils are cracked.és et burned crops.