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Title: Rising temperatures could drive up farmer suicides in India without government help: study
Source:Reuters
Date:1 August 2017

Climate change has led to more than 59,000 farmer suicides in India over the last three decades and rising temperatures could drive the suicide rate up further without government help for farmers, according to a U.S. university study. University of California Berkeley researcher Tamma Carleton said suicide rates in India have nearly doubled since 1980 and claim more than 130,000 lives every year, with about 7 percent of these attributable to warming linked to human activity.




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