If no action is take to combat climate change, South Asia could become uninhabitable, according to a study by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It is home to the Arctic research base where French and German scientists are studying climatic and atmospheric changes in the polar region, including the damage done to permafrost and glacier systems. The study, published in Nature Climate Change, found that if global warming continues unabated, India and Pakistan will be unable to sustain their current populations within two decades. Currently 2% of India's population is exposed to potentially lethal wet-bulb temperatures, but this could rise to as much as 70% within the century, according to the MIT study.
If no action is take to combat climate change, South Asia could become uninhabitable, according to a study by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The study, published in Nature Climate Change, found that if global warming continues unabated, India and Pakistan will be unable to sustain their current populations within two decades. Currently 2% of India's population is exposed to potentially lethal wet-bulb temperatures, but this could rise to as much as 70% within the century, according to the MIT study.