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The climate disaster strikes: what the data say

A series of impact assessments highlight India’s vulnerability to extreme weather events and the risks they pose to human health.
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  1. Shannon Hall

    1. Shannon Hall is a freelance science journalist in Colorado.

India is facing a harsh new reality. In Kerala, near the southern tip of the subcontinent, floods frequently inundate farmlands and pour into households. In the sea off Mumbai, fewer fish are caught owing to an increase in cyclones and heavier rainfall. Farther north in Rajasthan, cattle farmers face rising temperatures and water shortages. In the northern state of Uttarakhand, forest fires are more frequent today than in the past. And in Satabhaya, a coastal village off the Bay of Bengal, rising sea levels and coastal erosion have forced hundreds of families to leave. All these problems have, of course, been exacerbated by climate change.

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Nature 624, S26-S28 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03910-w

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