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Climate Change May Weaken Children’s Education in the Tropics

Posted: 06 May 2019 09:01 PM PDT

In parts of the tropics, exposure to extreme temperature or rainfall in early life is associated with fewer years of schooling in later childhood. This finding comes from my new article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, with coauthor Clark Gray. As climate change leads to increasingly severe heat waves, floods, droughts, […] Related posts: To Fight Climate Change, Educate and Empower Girls Flooding in Bangladesh: Calling Out Climate Change From the High Ground An...

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