Climate Change Is Bringing Dengue Fever to the High Himalayas

The warming of Nepal’s mountains is dramatically transforming some of the grandest landscapes on Earth, leading melting glaciers to collapse, thawing permafrost that can slide from steep peaks and crumbling ice dams to release vast lakes. But other impacts are barely the length of a fingernail. As the alpine cold recedes, disease-bearing mosquitoes are taking […]