Climate change is increasingly being blamed for weather disasters leading to disease, hunger and homelessness. This is a short summary of recent disasters and other unfortunate developments blamed on climate change.

1. In Latin America, diseases like dengue fever, bartonellosis and malaria are spreading faster than ever. Health experts are keeing a close eye as rising  temperatures change the way diseases behave, while collateral effects — from the retreat of glaciers that provide vital drinking and irrigation water to more frequent, intense storms and flooding — increase the burden on developing economies.
2. The recent catastrophic fires that recently swept through Russia, which affected the bread basket region, were followed by a sharp increase of prices for products like bread and cereal, from Ukraine to the U.S., where prices of wheat doubled in days.
3. Scientists are now blaming catastrophic floods in Pakistan, affecting some 20 milli0n people, on climate change.
4. The latest damage climate change is inflicting, according to NASA satellite data, is in reversing a decades-long trend of increased global plant growth. “Earth has done an ecological about-face,” a NASA statement said. “Global plant productivity that once flourished under warming temperatures and a lengthened growing season is now on the decline, struck by the stress of drought.”