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Climate change fuelled deadly Kerala landslides, say scientists

Indian rescue crews scoured mud-caked tea plantations and villages on August 1 with little hope of finding more survivors from landslides that killed around 200 people. Climate change played a key factor in torrential rains in India that triggered catastrophic landslides last month, scientists said. Monsoon rains battered the southern coastal state of Kerala and triggered landslides on July 30, burying homes and residents in Wayanad district under tonnes of rock and soil.