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Priya Shetty explains the links between climate change and insect-borne disease, and outlines priorities for developing country policymakers.

Modelling how climate change might affect insect-borne disease is hugely complex — and increasingly controversial, explains Justine Davies.

Climate change is a reality in developing regions, who say the international community must not neglect better adaptation strategies.

Hannah Chalmers gives the low-down on how reducing emissions from deforestation can play a central role in tackling climate change.

The Tibetan plateau is feeling the effects of climate change, with glacial retreat and permafrost degradation among the effects.

The UN supports forest protection in the next climate agreement, but questions on how to tackle deforestation are still being debated.

Climate change and overgrazing near Lake Hovsgol in northern Mongolia may cause irreversible damage to the surrounding ecosystem.

New climate change models predict a heavy impact from global warming on Brazil's biodiversity, agriculture and health, reports Helen Mendes.

T.V. Padma looks at how and why greenhouse gas emissions from India are on the rise.

Peter Aldhous reports from the former peat swamp forests of Indonesian Borneo on how a misguided attempt to boost rice production is contributing to climate change.

Anthony McMichael explores the effects that massive pressures on the Earth's natural systems are having on human health.