Climate Change Has Spread Malaria Risk to New Parts, Study Shows

Warming temperatures are driving mosquitoes into new parts of Africa and spreading the risk of malaria, according to a new study that highlights the impact of climate change on disease.

The report, published this week in the peer-reviewed journal Biology Letters, found that mosquitoes have moved to higher elevations and have pushed further south. The movements align with observed climate changes and could explain malaria transmission patterns during the studied time frame, according to the team of researchers led out of Georgetown University in the US.

Researchers have long forecast that climate change will dramatically alter the geographical spread of the world’s ...