US EditionMost of today’s children could endure historic heatwaves as planet warms
- A study published in Nature on May 7, 2025, revealed that slightly more than 50% of children born in 2020 are expected to encounter lifetime exposure to heatwaves at levels never seen before.
- Researchers combined demographic, life expectancy, and climate modelling data to assess exposure under multiple warming scenarios from 1960 to 2020 cohorts.
- The study highlights that 92% of children born in 2020 would face such exposure if global warming rises to 3.5°C, far exceeding past generations’ risks.
- Lead author Dr. Luke Grant described the threshold as stringent and noted that without climate change, experiencing so many extremes would be a 1-in-10,000 chance.
- The results underscore urgent, deep emission cuts to protect current youth, especially socioeconomically vulnerable groups, who face the highest unprecedented exposure risks.
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Most of today’s children could endure historic heatwaves as planet warms
A Nature study projects that millions born after 1960 will face unprecedented lifetime exposure (ULE) to climate extremes, such as heatwaves, droughts, and floods. The risks grow with global warming and disproportionately impact socioeconomically vulnerable populations.
Kids will experience ‘unfair’ exposure to climate extremes
The 2008 Bihar flood. Credit: Dinodia Photo/Getty Images Today’s children will endure exposure to more climate extremes in their lifetime than any generation before them, a new study published in Nature has projected. Climate extremes, including heatwaves, crop failures, river floods, tropical cyclones, wildfires and droughts, will increase in frequency and intensity with continued atmospheric warming. Global average temperatures are rising at u…
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