How 1.4bn Indians are adapting to climate change

As heat, floods and drought get worse, people are getting creative

The flood waters were rising and Sukanya Ashin realised she had to get out of her house. Her husband tried to open the back door, but it was blocked by shifting mud. So they wrapped their two-year-old in a blanket and waded through the front doorway, as their wardrobe floated off and the houses around them started to slip down the hill. They found safety. But 17 of their neighbours died in the flood.

This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Adapt or fry”

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