The life-altering effects heat is having on American children

Global heating takes a disproportionate toll on Black and Latino children - and the danger begins before they are even born

Joe Biden has vowed to uproot what he describes as the systemic racism that has caused certain communities disproportionate harm from climate change and environmental contaminants for decades".

The need for this is increasingly clear. The roots of systemic racism run so stubbornly deep in the US, recent research has revealed, that global heating harms Black and Latino children before they are even born, as well as in the first years of their lives.