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| Could pollution be shielding South Asia from the worst of climate change? The region has been warming at a slower rate than the rest of the world and many scientists think this anomaly could be due to smog. But pollution is a bigger killer than heat stress in places like India today—South Asia’s dilemma will soon be whether to fry or to choke |
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