IN A rare instance of humans beating one of the impacts of climate change, measures to combat malaria appear to be neutralising the expected global increase of the disease driven by rising temperatures.
of the University of Oxford compared a map of the range of malaria in 2007 , when the world was 0.7 °C cooler. He found the proportion of Earth’s landmass where malaria is endemic has fallen from 58 per cent to 30 per cent (Nature, vol 465, p 342). Malaria’s rate of transmission has also fallen almost everywhere.
This indicates that…
