By Anna Fleck for Statista A heat wave is sweeping across South Asia, with temperatures having reached 44°C in India’s Jaipur and 50°C in Pakistan’s Shaheed Benazirabad in April, Statista reports.

Pakistan is one of the most vulnerable countries to the climate crisis and faces rates of warming considerably above the global average. Meanwhile, the entire south Asian region faces a series of ...

In such conditions, the temperature starts rising,” he said. Pakistan’s climate is warming much faster than the global average, with a potential rise of 2.3 to 8.8 degrees Fahrenheit by the ...