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Preparing for heatwaves: When even water won’t cool you down [EN/AR]

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“We are dying from the heat; we experience extreme fatigue because of it,” said Rasmiya Al-Muhammad, who has spent the last decade living in Al-Hamra camp for internally displaced people in Syria’s Idleb governorate.

Summer has arrived in Syria, and the displaced community is enduring yet another deadly heatwave. In the last two months, Syria and other countries across Asia experienced record-breaking heat. And in the last few weeks, scores of people died from the scorching record heat in Saudi Arabia and India.

Human-caused climate change made this heatwave twice as likely, said a study led by World Weather Attribution (WWA), an initiative formed by leading global climate researchers.* The study also notes that the climate crisis will make such heatwaves longer and more frequent and extreme.

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