Dhaka, Aug. 27 -- Climate change is already exposing millions of children in Bangladesh to additional dangerous heat stress, with 22 million children aged 0-9.

Around 79% of all children in this age group are experiencing at least one additional month of heat stress every year because of human-induced climate change, according to new research led by Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and published in Science Advances.

The analysis also finds that climate change has nearly tripled the number of Bangladeshi children aged 0-9 experiencing at least five total months (150 days) of dangerous heat stress each year, increasing the number from 9 million in a world without climate change to 26 million today which is equivalent to 91% of children in...