The subcontinent - home to one-fifth of the global population - could see humid heat rise to unlivable levels by the century's end if little is done to put the brakes on climate change.
Scientists have warned that swathes of South Asia may be uninhabitable due to rising temperatures by 2100. In the desert community of Sibi in south-west Balochistan province, where the mercury hit 52.4°C this summer, it feels like they could be right.
Researchers outlined their findings in the journal of Science Advances warning of "summer heat waves with levels of heat and humidity that exceed what humans can survive without protection".
"Deadly heat waves could begin within as little as a few decades to strike regions of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, including the fertile Indus and Ganges river basins that produce much of the region's food supply," said the report.
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