Earth and Leaf Editorial – African Children   African children are at the forefront of climate change disaster.  They are also the very people who can do little about the crisis.  The very young have little ability to thermoregulate.  Surely we must do something. Young African children are at particular risk of heat stress impacts. Riccardo Mayer/Shutterstock Extract   Climate change has already increased global temperatures, greatly increasing extremes. This will continue unless greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to “net-zero”. The 1.5°C target of the Paris Agreement requires emissions reductions of around 50% in the next 10 years. Newborn babies are particularly vulnerable to high temperatures. They have a limited…