SciDev.Net: Climate change could have unexpected effects on the incidence of malaria — even reducing it in unforeseen places, says an insect expert. In malaria-prone areas, the daily fluctuations in temperature that global warming might bring could threaten a critical phase of the malaria parasite’s life cycle, according to Matthew Thomas, of Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Cases in these areas could drop as a result. His findings illustrate the complexities faced by …