Climate change could be making us fatter, dumber and more depressed: report

A new report has found climate change is having some unexpected consequences for people living in the Asia Pacific region.

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While it's often reported that climate change is affecting the health of our planet, a new report charting the effects of  has found it is also having an effect on the health of the population.

The  (GHAA) outlined a series of areas where the health of the region's population was being affected by changes to the climate, including reduced IQs in the children of people who have survived natural disasters, malnutrition due to declining crops and death from heatwaves.


The report, published this week, also pointed to increased rates of obesity as a potential unexpected consequence of climate change, with rising temperatures leading to reduced rates of physical activity.

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Published 31 July 2019 8:49pm
Updated 31 July 2019 9:36pm
By Maani Truu

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