Tomorrow morning is the atumnal equinox, the official end to a summer that's been the hottest on record.

A recent report from UNICEF says that around the world, nearly half a billion children live in places where there have been at least twice the number of

95 degree or more days than there were in the 1960s.

The reports is extreme heat creates health concerns for children and for pregnant women.

It increases the likelihood of stillbirths, babies with low birth weight,

and premature births.

Lily Caprani is UNICEF's chief of global advocacy.

Lily, are there places in the world where this problem

is especially pronounced?

Well, as you've said, this has been the hottest summer on record,

and that's affected every country in the world,

including in the United States in Western Europe but there are

some countries that have had it particularly bad. Some of the countries in West and Central Africa

that UNICEF has been studying and researching the temperatures of and over 95 degrees, Fahrenheit, children who are living through extreme heat for a huge portion

of the year now, but it's affecting every country in the world.

What are the effects that we see, especially children what effects show up yeah the reason

UN Children's Agency we see that children all over the world are really struggling

with the extreme heat I mean it affects all of us it affects older people and young

people especially badly. For young children especially very young babies and

infants their bodies are particularly vulnerable to the effect of heat stress because they're not just like little adults.

Their bodies work differently. They get hotter more quickly. It takes more for them to try and call their bodies down.

Anyone who's held a baby in their arms

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