In case there weren't enough reasons to be freaked out about climate change, here's another one: a new study shows it can make it easier for West Nile disease to spread. Super. West Nile disease, which is carried by birds and spread to humans by mosquitoes, was first detected in the US in 1999 and since then, there have been tens of thousands of cases and nearly 2,000 deaths. But predicting when and where a new outbreak might occur has been tricky. So a team of researchers recently gathered a bunch of data on the outbreaks of West Nile to see what role the environment and climate change had on the spread of the disease.

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