Spring moves about four kilometres northwards each year, due to climate change. Trees can’t pull up their roots and leave when facing challenges, so they find coping with climate change’s impact particularly tough. Changes may even be to their advantage, as a recent paper on mosquitoes in Brazil’s Atlantic Rainforest suggests. Human blood-meal deposits were detected in nine mosquito species. The authors say: "The results revealed a clear tendency for the captured mosquito species to feed predominantly on humans."

Source: Irish Examiner January 29, 2026 13:40 UTC