Residents of informal settlements suffer from extreme weather due to their precarious living environment. Now, findings show that extreme weather event thresholds do not fully capture the negative impacts experienced by women in Nairobi, Kenya.
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The work on this article was supported through the NIH T32 postdoctoral funding (NICHD T32 HD007514-23). Furthermore, assistance was provided by the Population Research Institute at Penn State University, which is supported by an infrastructure grant by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P2CHD041025).
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Broyles, L. Extreme weather threatens informal settlements. Nat. Clim. Chang. 14, 428–429 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-01992-6
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