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By Shaista
According to a study on climate change, India currently loses over 259 billion hours per year owing to the effects of humid heat on labor.
According to a new study released on Thursday, a punishing mix of heat and humidity that makes outdoor labour difficult and dangerous causes roughly 677 billion lost working hours per year around the world, and climate change is making it worse.
The detrimental impacts of suffocating temperatures on workers doing heavy work in agriculture and construction had been overestimated, according to researchers in the United States, who calculated the current cost at $2.1 trillion per year.
The new statistics come amid an increasing focus on climate change's severe health repercussions, not just as projections of future harm from heatwaves and other extreme events, but as consequences presently being felt around the world as a result of global warming.
The study, which was published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, looked at data on humid heat, which is particularly harmful because the body's ability to cool down through sweating is reduced.
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