Sleep and the human impacts of climate change

In this issue of Sleep Medicine Reviews, Rifkin and colleagues (referred subsequently as RLP) [1] report on a systematic review of the literature – and present a conceptual framework for – the potential impacts of climate change on human sleep. Their review spans literature from 1980-2017 and results in 16 studies matching the authors' selection criteria. Across these studies, RLP report a tendency of exposure to warmer temperatures, extreme weather events, floods, or wildfires to associate with diminished total sleep times as well as incidences of sleep disruption.

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