13 Environment · 13.3 Climate change science

13.3.3 Impacts of climate change on India: monsoon, glaciers, coasts and agriculture

In India, climate change shows up as hotter summers, a less reliable monsoon with more extreme downpours, shrinking Himalayan glaciers, rising seas and stronger cyclones, and these hit farm incomes hardest.

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  • Indian monsoon
  • extreme rainfall
  • heatwave
  • Himalayan glaciers
  • GLOF
  • sea-level rise
  • cyclones
  • Arabian Sea
  • agriculture
  • NICRA
  • Hindu Kush Himalaya

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