INCREASED numbers of pre-term births, higher incidences of respiratory disease and death, and more kids in hospitals are some of the health outcomes the world is facing from the impacts of extreme climate change, according to new research.
Scientists have spent decades warning the world about the risks of extreme temperatures, floods, and bushfires, but the study published in Feb in the journal Science of the Total Environment is the first to collect all the available scientific evidence for the effects of climate change on children's health.
The data identified which particular climate-driven extremes are linked to certain detrimental health impacts for future generations.
The risk of a pre-term birth will increase by 60% on average from exposure to extreme temperatures the study found, led by Dr Lewis Weeda, a researcher with The University of Western Australia and the Wal-yan Respiratory Research Centre at Telethon Kids Institute, along with Matthew Flinders, Professor of Global Ecology, and Corey Bradshaw from Flinders University.
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