Buns in ovens: heatwaves and maternal health
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The Economist
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🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
There is a growing awareness of how high temperatures affect expectant mothers and their babies. We look at the evidence for a climate-change effect that is already manifest. Marks and Spencer, a beloved retail chain, is emerging from sales slumps and recovering handily from a cyber-attack. And the policy moves to address India’s notoriously gridlocked roads.
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| 0:57.6 | Marx and Spencers is as British as tea and the Queen, |
| 1:01.3 | but like some other of the UK's iconic institutions, |
| 1:04.2 | it's had its share of troubles along the way. |
| 1:06.8 | Our correspondent ventures in for a Percy Pig. |
| 1:11.7 | And India's roads are just jam-packed, but not only with cars. |
| 1:17.1 | In fact, not even mostly cars. |
| 1:19.3 | Our correspondent takes us into the filthy cacophony to examine some efforts at making streets a bit more navigable. |
| 1:30.3 | Music at making streets a bit more navigable. But first... It's pretty clear that climate change is bad for health. |
| 1:51.0 | Take the heat. Humans have to maintain a pretty constant temperature to function properly. |
| 1:56.0 | The hotter it gets, the harder the body has to work to cool itself down. If you're healthy, that puts your body under undue strain. |
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