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Deadly ‘wet-bulb temperatures’ are being stoked by climate change and heat waves

NBC News · Denise Chow · last updated

Parts of India and Pakistan have been sweltering for weeks under a record-breaking heat wave, exposing more than a billion people to dangerously hot conditions with little relief in sight.

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