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One day of extreme heat causes 3,400 excess deaths across India, study estimates

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Researchers Piyush Narang and Ashok Gadgil from the India Energy and Climate Center at the University of California Berkeley, US, said that even though global studies highlight a surging heat-related mortality, granular spatial-temporal data on how heatwaves affect mortality in India's districts remain inaccessible to common researchers. The post One day of extreme heat causes 3,400 excess deaths across India, study estimates appeared first on India Energy & Climate Center .

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