{"id":75210,"date":"2025-11-17T21:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/ng-interactive\/2025\/nov\/17\/india-heatwave-manesar-haryana-state-this-is-climate-breakdown"},"modified":"2025-11-17T21:00:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T12:00:34","slug":"i-couldnt-speak-i-couldnt-breathe-this-is-climate-breakdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75210","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I couldn\u2019t speak. I couldn\u2019t breathe\u2019 \u2013 This is climate breakdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As summer went on, the temperature climbed and climbed. Every day became harder. This is Neha\u2019s story<\/p>\n<p><em>Location<\/em> Manesar, India<\/p>\n<p><em>Disaster<\/em> Indian heatwave, 2024<\/p>\n<p><em>Neha is 25 years old and works for a large multinational company at a warehouse in Manesar, Haryana state, <\/em><em>so she can send money back home to her family. In 2024, her working conditions worsened after a deadly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heatwatch.in\/blogs\/press-release-new-report-struck-by-heat-a-news-analysis-of-heatstroke-deaths\">heat<\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heatwatch.in\/blogs\/press-release-new-report-struck-by-heat-a-news-analysis-of-heatstroke-deaths\">wave<\/a> spread across <\/em><em>northern India. Climate <\/em><em>breakdown is <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00382-019-05093-5\">increasing<\/a> the frequency and intensity of heat<\/em><em>waves in India by warming the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/ng-interactive\/2025\/nov\/17\/india-heatwave-manesar-haryana-state-this-is-climate-breakdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As summer went on, the temperature climbed and climbed. Every day became harder. This is Neha\u2019s storyLocation Manesar, IndiaDisaster Indian heatwave, 2024Neha is 25 years old and works for a large multinational company at a warehouse in Manesar, Haryan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5060,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2331,65,455,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-extreme-weather","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5060"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75211,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75210\/revisions\/75211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}