India's been feeling the heat lately, with March temperatures the highest in more than 100 years according to meteorological officials, who expect the heatwave to continue this month in much of the country.

In cities like Chennai, the sizzling temperatures have got residents thinking about how to cut their energy bills as they crank up the air-conditioning.

When popular Indian singer Chinmayi Sripaada shared a photo of freshly cleaned rooftop solar panels at her in-laws' Chennai home on social media, she spotlighted how her family is tapping into clean power as energy demand rises due to the extreme heat.

In response, some of her 1 million Twitter followers wrote back, asking about the cost of solar panels, where they could get more information and how to set one up on their own houses - as government efforts to raise awareness fall short.

"I replied to everyone who had questions, sharing details of how we did ours," Sripaada told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Meanwhile, in Mumbai, we report on how the city's 40,000 women fish vendors - known as fiercely independent, witty and financially savvy - are struggling as fish catches shrink amid worsening heat and storms, pushing up prices and harming their livelihoods.

Like farmers, they want more financial help from the government. "The sea is our farm - and we too are climate victims," 55-year-old vendor Nayana Patil told Roli Srivastava in the local market.

In southern Iraq, where agriculture was once "as lucrative as oil", drought is a growing problem for local farmers like Qasim Abdul Wahad, who has lost 90% of his winter crops, including all of his okra and eggplant, while the region's famous date palms are caked in dust.

As harsher droughts and heat hit food production and the incomes of those dependent on farming, about one in 15 Iraqi households last year saw at least one family member migrate to seek new economic opportunities, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council, which researches the issue.

Despite the changing climate, farmers are still using centuries-old methods that are no longer suitable - and need help to adopt measures such as sowing drought-resistant crop varieties and using better drip irrigation systems, found Tessa Fox in Abu Al-Khaseeb.

In another dispatch on how climate impacts are making it harder for people to stay put, our U.S.-based correspondent David Sherfinski visited Tangier Island, an isolated community in Virginia's Chesapeake Bay.

Its traditions, including crabbing and oystering in the surrounding waters, are under threat as the island gradually loses land to rising seas and stronger storms.

The population has shrunk to about 400 people who are hoping to protect their homes by building a battery of sea walls - but that will require substantial government funding and is raising issues about what land is worth protecting and at what cost.

“If you can’t save an island a mile-and-a-half long, how are you going to save the East Coast if sea level rise has become a factor?” asked Cameron Evans, a Tangier native and now a student at Virginia Wesleyan University.

While the answers to such questions remain unclear, one thing is certain: they are being heard more often and more urgently as global warming bites harder around the globe...

Megan

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