Expecting worse: Giving birth on a planet in crisis

Around the world last year, more than 134 million babies were born. During that same 12-month period when so many lives were just beginning, about 6.8 billion people — nearly 80% of the global population — experienced at least 31 days of extreme heat that was made at least two times more likely due to human-caused climate change. The children being born now will come to know a world that’s not only getting hotter, but also one with a climate that will only become more unpredictable and increasingly at risk...