A Matter of Survival as South Asia’s Heat Wave Reaches 127 Degrees

As South Asia bakes under a blistering heat wave, life-or-death decisions arrive with the midday sun.Abideen Khan and his 10-year-old son need every penny of the $3.50 a day they can make molding mud into bricks at a kiln under the open sky in Jacobabad, a city in southern Pakistan. But as temperatures have soared as high as 126 degrees Fahrenheit, or 52 degrees Celsius, in recent days, they have been forced to…