Extreme Rainfall Has Been Linked With Low Birth Weight in Babies – Gizmodo

Increasing extreme weather events is wreaking havoc across the globe, and may be harming the health of newborn babies in some of the worlds most remote and vulnerable populations. New research published Monday in Nature Sustainability finds a strong link between extreme rainfall events in the Amazon, which have been supercharged by climate change, and worrisome risks to babies like low birth weight and shortened pregnancies.
The studys authors worked with a trove of more than 291,000 digitized birth…

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