Using geoengineering to slow global heating risks malaria rise, say scientists

Changing the Earth’s climate artificially could have significant effects on the prevalence of disease carriers such as the Anopheles mosquito. Photograph: Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock

Geoengineering to prevent the worst impacts of climate breakdown could expose up to a billion more people to malaria, scientists have found.

The report, published in Nature Communications, is the first assessment of how geoengineering the climate could affect the burden of infectious diseases.