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SINGAPORE: Killer heat waves are putting “unprecedented burdens” on India’s agriculture, economy and public health, with climate change undermining the country’s long-term efforts to reduce poverty, inequality and illness, a new study showed. Extreme heat has caused more than 24,000 deaths since 1992 and has also driven up air pollution and accelerated glacial melt in northern
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According to the researchers, India is now "facing a collision of multiple, cumulative climate hazards," with extreme weather happening almost every day from January to October last year.
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Killer heat waves are putting "unprecedented burdens" on India's agriculture, economy and public health, with climate change undermining the country's long-term efforts to reduce poverty, inequality and illness, a new study showed.
The sizzling heat is underestimated by India’s legislators, officials and slowing nation’s development, a study says.