India, March 13 -- A study highlights that India faces severe limitations on daily activities due to extreme heat, affecting both younger and older adults.

The Indo-Gangetic Plain and eastern lowlands are particularly impacted.

India sees 100 billion people-hours of limitation for younger adults and over 1 trillion people-hours of limitation for older adults.

This exacerbates inequality, as poorer populations are less able to adapt.

Heat stress due to anthropogenic global warming is increasingly being recognised as a major global health challenge and one that disproportionately affects the poor. A new heat sensitivity-based liveability study on different age groups across the world revealed that the number of hours people can be outdo...