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These Workers Toiling in 120-Degree Heat Are on Front Lines of Climate Change

The Wall Street Journal · last updated

KUWAIT CITY—Ice-cream seller Ramadan Daber pops painkillers to relieve the headaches induced by this city’s merciless heat, as he waits for customers at his tricycle cart for nine hours at a stretch. Sometimes he can’t see because of the humidity. At other points he struggles to breathe. 

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