Grist: India is reeling from a heatwave so high that shoes are melting to roads, cities are banning cooking during the day, and hundreds have died. Nowhere is as hot as of Phalodi, a city in the north where temperatures reached a staggering 123 degrees Fahrenheit last week, breaking the previous record set in 1956.
India is no stranger to high temperatures and large disasters: 2015 was an especially devastating year for the country, with heat, drought, and floods killing hundreds of citizens. All of…

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