The relentless heat, with temperatures soaring beyond 100 degrees Fahrenheit for days, particularly in northwestern India and southeastern Pakistan, has killed at least 90 people, led to flooding from glacial melting in the Himalayas, contributed to power shortages and stunted India's wheat crop, helping to fuel an emerging global food crisis
Global warming has made the severe heat wave that has smothered much of Pakistan and India this spring hotter and much more likely to occur, climate scientists said Monday.
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