Saturday, July 16, 2011

Which of the following is an environmental change that scientists believe may increase the areas where malaria?

Draining wetlands would tend to decrease malaria, by decreasing mosquito populations. Destroying habitats, and soil erosion, would have little direct effect on malaria-carrying mosquitoes. But warming might open up new habitats to the relatively cold-sensitive mosquitoes that carry malaria.

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