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Is India becoming too hot to live in?

Climate change means temperatures in India are rising to the limit of human endurance. The heat is destroying health and livelihoods. How can India cope now and in the future?

This year India has experienced its worst heatwave since records began. The heatwave is estimated to have led to dozens of deaths across the region and led to forest fires and damage to wheat crops.

Health and livelihoods are threatened by the rising temperatures. How much can India adapt to heat that is rising to the limit of human endurance and what needs to be done to mitigate the effects of climate change?

Presenter: Tanya Beckett
Producer: Louise Clarke-Rowbotham
Editor: Tara McDermott
Technical Producer: Craig Boardman

(A worker stops for water in scorching heat near India Gate, New Delhi. Credit: Arvind Yadav/ Getty Images)

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Thu 30 Jun 2022 21:06GMT

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