LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Daily Mirror has published a picture of a newborn baby with a headline: "Leighton is only a few hours old, but his future is threatened by climate change."
Below the picture is another headline: "Give me a world where I can grow."
This page comes in a file on the impact of climate change on children, which coincides with a scientific report prepared by about 100 experts from 35 scientific institutions, including the World Health Organization, and published in the journal "The Lancet" in its current issue.
According to the German news agency, the report concluded that "the lives of every child born today will be severely affected by climate change, which is already affecting the health of many people, especially children.
According to the report, if land resources continue to be exploited in the same way, "the lives of every child born today will be severely affected by climate change."
Describing current and future impacts of climate change on health, the experts said that if carbon dioxide emissions continue in their current form, every child born today will live at the age of 71 in a world that is 4 degrees higher on average.
Nike Watts, head of the Lancet team of scientists, said children were most affected by the effects of climate change. He said the children's body and immune system were still in the process of being built.
The researchers also noted that the decline in crops due to climate change, and the resulting malnutrition, affects children more seriously, and that children suffer more from diarrhea and mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue.
Climate change has already helped spread the pathogens that cause these diseases, the researchers said.