US EditionClimate change brings heightened risks to B.C. pregnancies: report
- Climate Central released a report on May 14, 2025, revealing that extreme heat increasingly threatens maternal health worldwide, including in Victoria, B.C.
- The report was based on an analysis started in March 2025 that examined temperature records from hundreds of cities and countries to monitor the increase in heat-risk days affecting pregnant women.
- Pregnancy heat-risk days are defined as days when temperatures exceed 95 percent of historical local records, linked to higher risks like hypertension and stillbirth.
- Victoria averaged 12 additional pregnancy heat-risk days annually between 2020 and 2024, with climate change responsible for 52 percent of these extra days, while Vancouver saw two fewer such days.
- The report indicates that human-driven climate change has caused the average number of dangerously hot days impacting pregnant women to more than double in almost 90 percent of countries worldwide, highlighting significant concerns for global maternal health.
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Heatwaves Increase Risk Of Pregnancy Complications By 1.25 Times: Study
In 222 out of the 247 countries and territories studied, "climate change at least doubled the average annual number of pregnancy heat-risk days experienced during the past five years", the report said.
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