Warming temperatures bring dengue mosquitoes to Nepal’s Himalayas

Devi Kannya Katayata, 33, breastfeeds her son Nehan Budha, 2, under a mosquito net in their home in Chandannath, Jumla

Climbing to the Roof of the World For generations, the high Himalayas of Nepal stood as a cold, forbidding sanctuary against the tropical diseases of the lowlands. Today, melting glaciers and rising alpine temperatures are rewriting that geography, bringing disease-bearing mosquitoes up steep mountain slopes and into communities that have no clinical memory of them. … Read more