Temperatures soar in India, reaching potential new record

Temperatures soar in India, reaching potential new record

Delhi swelters in a heatwave, while India's government-run weather bureau cautions that station measurements showing a potentially record-breaking temperature in the capital may have been due to a fault in the measuring equipment.

India is no stranger to searing summer temperatures, but years of scientific research have found that climate change is causing heatwaves to become longer, more frequent, and more intense.