How longer and more intense heatwaves are linked to premature births

Examining data from 5.3 million births across the top 50 metropolitan areas in the US over 25 years, a recent study found that for every one-degree Celsius rise in temperature above a certain threshold, there was a corresponding one per cent increase in preterm and early-term births


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