Climate change may pose a significant risk to Australians’ reproductive health, according to a new, large-scale Curtin University study that found a possible association between high bioclimatic exposure during pregnancy and newborns’ gestational age birthweight. Researchers from the Curtin School of Population Health examined more than 3,85,000 pregnancies in Western Australia between 2000 and 2015, from 12 weeks prior to conception until birth.
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