While mosquitoes are remarkably adaptable animals, scientists have repeatedly demonstrated that their numbers and territory are expanding as the planet warms and weather patterns change.
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New Atlas,
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That snow warms the ground below and allows microbes during the winter to release more of the heat-trapping gas methane, Elmendorf said.
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