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Extreme Heat Putting Births in Jeopardy, U.N. Climate Chief Warns
- UN climate chief Simon Stiell warned on Monday in Nadi, Fiji, that extreme heat poses growing risks to pregnant women and newborns, describing pregnancy as a 'new faultline' in the global climate crisis.
- Climate change is making extreme weather more intense, with around 33 countries recording their hottest July this year, according to AFP analysis of European Union Copernicus observatory data.
- Across five continents, more than two thirds of health professionals in a Wellcome-commissioned survey of 1,000 practitioners reported complications from intense heat, including restricted growth and dehydration in the past five years.
- Prime Minister Julia Gillard, chairwoman of Wellcome, urged leaders to act on the evidence, as Stiell warned that 'Pregnancy should be a time of hope' but is becoming a time of anxiety from climate-driven risks.
- Preceding the larger UN-sponsored COP31 climate conference in Turkey next month, the pre-COP summit in Fiji and Tuvalu allows Pacific leaders to showcase life on the frontline of climate change.
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EXTREME heat significantly increases the risk of premature births and dangerous complications for pregnant women, warns the UN Climate Change Program.
·Zagreb, Croatia
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According to data from a new study, now presented, each rise of one degree Celsius contributes to a 5% increase in premature births and 7% in cases of gestational diabetes.
·Lisboa, Portugal
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Total News Sources48
Leaning Left12Leaning Right8Center13Last UpdatedBias Distribution40% Center
Bias Distribution
- 40% of the sources are Center
40% Center
L 36%
C 40%
R 24%
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