Morning Briefing

"Climate change is expected to worsen the plight of millions of children in East Asia and the Pacific who already lack food and clean water and are vulnerable to disease, ... UNICEF said Monday ... in its report (.pdf) 'Children's vulnerabilities to climate change and disaster impacts in East Asia and the Pacific,'" AlertNet reports. "'Higher temperatures have been linked to increased rates of malnutrition, cholera, diarrheal disease and vector-borne diseases like dengue and malaria,' putting children at far greater risk of contracting these diseases and succumbing to their complications, the report said," the news service writes.