As the senior climate editor at NPR, when extreme weather impacts us, I often send out guidance to the newsroom to help everyone understand the role of climate change. Here's what I tell them.

Kids face rising heat stress worldwide, with climate change exposing 560 million children to at least extra 30 days of heat stress yearly.

As the continent warms, once cooler regions will become prime habitat for mosquitoes and their parasites, while in other regions, heat will lower disease transmission.

Climate change is making allergy season in Georgia longer and more intense, creating new challenges for sufferers.

The Himalayan regions are increasingly vulnerable to extreme weather events, largely as a result of climate change. Melting glaciers and altered rainfall patterns significantly raise the risk of landslides and catastrophic floods.

The benefits of genomic selection, which uses DNA insights to support breeding for desirable traits, outweighed projected losses from heat stress, substantially altering forecasts of food production, greenhouse gas emissions and land use, the findings of a preliminary analysis show.