According to academics from Budapest's Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary may endure severe droughts over the next several decades unless climate change mitigation measures are implemented.
The Great Hungarian Plain is a flat,
fertile plain that covers the bulk of Hungary's contemporary area.
According to their assessment, dry areas
are anticipated to grow, particularly in the central and northern Great Plains,
eastern Hungary, and the country's northwestern regions. According to the
researchers, the proportion of wetlands has decreased from 84 percent to 68
percent when comparing modern statistics to estimates from the 1970s and 1980s.
The report also warned that beech woods
might totally vanish and oak could only be found in a few tiny regions. In the
worst-case scenario, the Great Plain could fully dry up and even more than 85%
of the country's land could turn into a wooded steppe by the second half of the
century.