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Sahil, a vegetable vendor, who only uses his fist name, sits at his shop in Noida, India, on June 20, 2024. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Bhasker Tripathi

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A medical attendant stands by an ice-making machine installed in the heatstroke care unit at Ram Manohar Lohia hospital in Delhi, India. June 13, 2024. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Bhasker Tripathi

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Narendra Singh, a water tanker driver, drives his truck to deliver water at low-income neighbourhoods in Delhi, India, June, 23, 2024. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Prabhat Mehrotra

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Aqsa Shabbir trains at the Star Women's Sports Academy in Jacobabad, Pakistan, on January 15, 2024. Erum Baloch/Handout via Thomson Reuters Foundation

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Prison inmate lies on his bed at Oak Glen Conservation Fire Camp #35 in Yucaipa, California November 6, 2014. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

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Men use a stole to cover from heat as they wait in a line outside a polling station to cast their votes during the sixth phase of India's general election, on a hot summer day in Bhubaneswar, India, May 25, 2024. REUTERS/Stringer

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A man showing symptoms of heat exhaustion touches a bottle of water provided by paramedics during a heatwave in Mexicali, Mexico, July 20, 2023. REUTERS/Victor Medina

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A man pours water on himself during a heatwave in Turin, Italy, August 25, 2023. REUTERS/Massimo Pinca

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A vendor uses a fan to cool himself as he waits for customers on a hot summer day on the outskirts of Kolkata, India, May 2, 2024. REUTERS/Sahiba Chawdhary

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Volunteer Nayon Sorkar tending plants as part of the Gulshan Lakeside greening initiative in Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 26, 2024. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Mosabber Hossain

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Women and children wash themselves after work at a muskmelon farm in Jacobabad, Pakistan. May 17, 2022. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

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