How Heat Waves Stoked by Climate Change Are Disrupting Sleep

Source: DW- top storiesDuring the June heat wave that brought record temperatures to western Europe, around 65% of adults in the UK struggled to sleep, according to a recent poll. Near half of those lost three or more hours sleep a night. Sleep disruption is an inevitable consequence of longer and hotter summers fueled by human-made climate change. As the fastest-warming continent—heating at more than double the global average—Europe has now become a sleep loss...