A conversation with one of the leading climate scientists, Dr Roxy Mathew Koll on the dengue warning system developed by IITM Pune, to predict two months in advance and why dengue cases and deaths rising at alarming rates in Kerala, across India, and globally and and how climate change is helping the Aedes aegypti mosquito thrive globally.

The interview also explores:

• Why Kerala consistently tops India’s dengue statistics in both cases and deaths.
• How temperature, humidity, and rainfall patterns are altering mosquito breeding and virus survival.
• The global south-to-north dengue shift, now reaching Western countries.
• Increasing fatality rates and the expanding transmission window for the virus.