Climate Change is Bad for Our Sleep
The long list of things that climate change has or will make worse for us might also include our sleep.
A 2022 study found evidence that warming temperatures have already started to erode our quality and quantity of sleep by causing more unbearably hot nights. By the end of the century, the study predicted, the worst climate scenarios might cause us to lose an average 58 hours of sleep and experience more than 14 days of short sleep a year.
