14 Alarming Connections Between Termites and Climate Change: Environmental Scientists' Growing Concerns

12. Impact on Urban Infrastructure

In metropolitan places where termites already wreak billions of dollars in damage yearly, climate change is aggravating termite-related problems. While stressing building materials and increasing their susceptibility to damage, warmer temperatures and changed rainfall patterns produce more ideal circumstances for termite activity in cities. Over the past ten years, environmental scientists and urban designers note a 25% rise in termite-related structural damage in cities under climate stress.