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'Every year the heat is increasing': India learns to live with hotter summers
India is experiencing increasingly severe summers due to climate change, forcing families in Rajasthan and New Delhi to adapt to extreme heat. Herdsman Sawai Bhati Singh and farmer Bhole Shankar describe how rising temperatures are disrupting daily life, health, and livestock, with traditional cooling methods proving inadequate. Scientists attribute the longer, more intense heatwaves to climate change.
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