Anyone who's tried to go to sleep in a heatwave knows the sweaty agony that rising temperatures can bring. And global warming won't make it any easier to find a cool spot on the bed.
are already linked to substantial losses in sleep duration, equivalent to about 11 nights of shortened sleep each year.
In lower-income nations, with reduced access to electrical fans or air conditioners, the authors found more sleep loss from nighttime temperatures. Elderly individuals and females were also particularly vulnerable. Meanwhile, nighttime temperatures greater than 25 degrees Celsius slightly increased the probability of getting less than 7 hours of sleep.
Using 21 different climate models, researchers have taken the losses of sleep already seen from nighttime heat and projected them into the future.
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