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  "id": 12032162,
  "title": "Extreme heat putting pregnant women, newborns at risk: UN climate chief",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/extreme-heat-putting-pregnant-women-newborns-at-risk-un-climate-chief",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-05T00:07:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Korea Times",
    "slug": "the-korea-times-koreatimes",
    "url": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/world/20261005/extreme-heat-putting-pregnant-women-newborns-at-risk-un-climate-chief"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Nadi, Fiji - United Nations climate chief Simon Stiell will deliver a stark warning on Monday about the increasing risks extreme heat poses to pregnant women and their newborns. Speaking at the pre-COP summit in Nadi, Stiell will reference a survey revealing that over two-thirds of health professionals across five continents have observed complications linked to intense heat during pregnancy in the past five years.\n\nStiell is expected to emphasize that rising temperatures exacerbate the dangers of pregnancy. Climate-driven extreme heat during pregnancy has been increasingly associated with premature births, stillbirths, low birth weight, and maternal complications. Stiell will state that the situation is clear and very disturbing, as climate change is now a new and potentially fatal faultline in the global climate crisis.\n\nHe will warn that this faultline must not become another deep chasm of climate-driven suffering, inequality, and injustice. Scientists caution that climate change intensifies extreme weather events, resulting in heat records being broken more frequently. Approximately 33 countries, ranging from western Europe to the Sahel, are affected by these escalating threats.",
  "summary": "NADI, Fiji — Extreme heat is putting pregnant mothers and their newborns at increasing risk, United Nations climate chief Simon Stiell will warn on Monday. Speaking at the \"pre-COP\" summit in Nadi, Fiji, Stiell will cite a new survey showing more than two thirds of health professionals across five continents had seen complications caused by intense heat in the past five years. \"Rising…",
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        "title": "Extreme heat putting pregnant women, newborns at risk: UN climate chief",
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        "outlet": "The Korea Times",
        "title": "Extreme heat putting pregnant women, newborns at risk: UN climate chief",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/extreme-heat-putting-pregnant-women-newborns-at-risk-un-climate-chief-12035723",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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