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The British author was speaking ahead of the release of his new book, What We Can Know, which is set a hundred years into the future in a UK partially submerged by rising seas.

The reportedly overloaded boat, said to have been carrying about 100 passengers including women and children, capsized when it struck a submerged tree stump on the River Niger in the Borgu area on Wednesday morning.

The government says there has been extensive crop damage on some 148,000 hectares of agricultural land, which has been submerged under water.

On 5 August, nearly half of the village of Dharali, in Uttarakhand state, was submerged after it was hit by a massive flash flood.

This has left cars, homes and buildings submerged.