<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-08/gwu-ehl080817.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(241, 241, 241); text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s linear; display: block; position: relative; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><header style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 18px 0px;" class=""><div class="reltime" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px;"><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-08/gwu-ehl080817.php" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s linear; position: relative; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; display: inline !important;" class=""><header style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 18px 0px; display: inline !important;" class=""><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 12px;">GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY</span></header></a>Public Release: 8-Aug-2017</div><h2 class="post_title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; line-height: 20px; color: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 17px;">Extreme heat linked to climate change may adversely affect pregnancy</h2><br class=""></header><div class="entry hidden-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="intro" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(185, 186, 188); padding-left: 10px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">A systematic review links extreme heat exposure to changes in gestation length, birth weight, stillbirth and neonatal stress.</font></span></p></div><dl class="meta hidden-xs dl-horizontal" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 17px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><dt class="yellow" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; float: left; width: auto; clear: left; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; text-transform: uppercase; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-color: rgb(255, 177, 52); padding-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 12px; min-width: 100px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">JOURNAL</font></span></dt><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-left: 100px;" class=""><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health</font></em></dd></dl></a><div class=""><a href="http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/14/8/853/htm" style="font-size: 17px;" class="">http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/14/8/853/htm</a></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">===============================================<br class="">"All organisms live within a limited range of body temperatures."<br class=""><br class="">Hans O. Pörtner and Anthony P. Farrell. Physiology and Climate Change. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">SCIENCE 31 OCTOBER 2008<br class="">========================================================================================<br class="">“ … organisms have a physiological response to temperature, and these responses have important consequences."<br class=""><br class="">Anthony I. Dell, Samraat Pawar and Van M. Savage, Temperature dependence of trophic interactions are driven by asymmetry of species responses and foraging strategy.<br class="">Journal of Animal Ecology 2013<br class=""></div></div></div></div></body></html>