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Crop-damaging temperatures increase suicide rates in India | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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I estimate that warming temperature trends over the last three decades have already been responsible for over 59,000 suicides throughout India. I show that high temperatures increase suicide rates, but only during India’s growing season, when heat also reduces crop yields
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  • I estimate that warming temperature trends over the last three decades have already been responsible for over 59,000 suicides throughout India.
  • I show that high temperatures increase suicide rates, but only during India’s growing season, when heat also reduces crop yields

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