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How India is battling deadly rain storms as climate change bites

South Asian weather is becoming increasingly difficult to forecast as monsoons grow more erratic — and global warming is raising the risks posed by violent rain storms.
  1. Gayathri Vaidyanathan

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People push vehicles stuck in the flood water at Panadala in district Pathanamthitta, India.

Intense monsoonal rains caused catastrophic flooding in Kerala, India, during August 2018. Credit: Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times/Getty

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Nature 614, 210-213 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00341-5

Additional reporting by Neelima Namboodiri.

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