Pakistan's date workers toil through rising heat⁣ ⁣ Date season arrives in July, when temperatures in Pakistan's southern Sindh province regularly hit the mid-40 degrees Celsius. ⁣ ⁣ Workers start before sunrise, and split the day into short shifts, but the heat soon catches up with them. Their gruelling routine involves harvesting and boiling fruit picked from palms that line Khairpur district, which produces more than half the country's dates and supports thousands of farmers and seasonal labourers. ⁣ ⁣ Date labourers are one of many professions in agriculturally-dependent Pakistan that are becoming more difficult and dangerous as temperatures rise.⁣ ⁣ Pakistan is among the countries globally most vulnerable to climate change despite contributing less than one percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. ⁣ ⁣ The country has experienced increasingly frequent heatwaves, erratic monsoon rains and devastating floods, including catastrophic 2022 floods that inundated around one-third of t...