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That warm buzzy feeling: malaria and climate change

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The Economist

News, News & Politics

4.35K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

As temperatures climb, mosquitoes will migrate to places where natural resistance to malaria is lower. More and more severe natural disasters will make for more breeding grounds. How to stop a deadly disease getting deadlier? In China’s cut-throat food-delivery war, absolutely no one wins. And Florida gamifies its efforts to cull pythons.


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The Economist.

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Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist.

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I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

1:21.9

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

1:32.9

It is increasingly cheap to get food delivered and fast in China, worryingly so.

1:38.5

As restaurants join the race to the bottom, the little guys are shuddering, the drivers are getting more reckless,

1:42.9

and one can't quite be sure that's pork in the pork-fried rice.

1:51.0

And in Florida, you can get paid 50 bucks for the first four feet and 25 for every foot after that.

1:58.3

Bricklaying? Rope-making? Nope. Python hunting. The snakes are ravaging other wildlife in the Everglades, and the state is gamifying their capture.

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