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India may face deadly heat waves within decades, become unliveable: Study

Nearly 1.5 billion people in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are likely to face deadly heat waves within the next few decades due to climate change, exposing them to unsurvivable temperatures and widespread food crisis, an MIT study has warned.Scientists predicted that by the end of this century climate change could lead to severe summer heat waves in South Asia, a region of deep poverty where one-fifth of the world's population resides.There is still time to avert such severe warming if measures are implemented now to reduce the most dire consequences of global warming, researchers said.However, without significant reductions in carbon emissions, the heat waves could begin within as little as a few decades to strike the fertile Indus and Ganges river basins that produce much of the region's food supply, they said.The areas likely to be hardest hit in northern India, Bangladesh and southern Pakistan are home to 1.5 billion people.These areas are also among the poorest in the region, ...

Heat waves in India claim more lives than earthquakes, cyclones

India's poorest areas most vulnerable to heat waves, as planning targets cities

India's killer heat wave claims 4,620 lives in last four years

If the temperature rises to 4 to 5 degrees above normal, then the condition is termed as a heat wave

Heat waves: Telangana declares summer holidays for schools from today

The CM felt that it was not desirable to send the children to school in this weather

IMD issues heat wave alert for Central Maharashtra, Marathwada

Northerly winds have increased day temperatures at several places in the state

Brace yourself for deadly heat waves even if global warming is halted

The trend would potentially expose more than 350 million additional people to heat stress by 2050