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Millions of California trees are dying; Joshua trees are just the latest victims
1 year, 4 months ago

Millions of California trees are dying; Joshua trees are just the latest victims

LA Times  

A firefighter sets a back fire as the York fire burns in Mojave National Preserve on July 30. “We’ve long known that the trends to anticipate in the 21st century are extended droughts and more active fire regimes, and these types of disturbances are having profound effects on forests statewide,” said Ryan Tompkins, forest and natural resources advisor at the …

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Bark beetles are eating through Germany’s Harz forest. Climate change is making matters worse
1 year, 4 months ago

Bark beetles are eating through Germany’s Harz forest. Climate change is making matters worse

Associated Press  

CLAUSTHAL-ZELLERFELD, Germany — Nestled in the spruce trees in the Harz mountains of northern Germany is a bark-eating pest not much bigger than a sesame seed. Ranger Marion Petrik holds spruce bark beetles during a bark beetle monitoring at the Lower-Saxony state forests in a forest of the Harz mountains near Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany, Thursday, July 27, 2023. Spruce bark beetles …

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Explained: How climate change amplifies the threat posed by a forest-eating bug
2 years ago

Explained: How climate change amplifies the threat posed by a forest-eating bug

Firstpost  

With chunks of bark peeling off and needles falling from dying branches, the spruce bark beetle, which is spreading further north with climate change, is killing more and more trees deep in the Finnish woods Helsinki: Deep in the Finnish woods, the moss and blueberry shrubs hide a deadly threat to the boreal forests that are as important to the …

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Editorial: Climate change is killing California’s iconic trees
2 years, 5 months ago

Editorial: Climate change is killing California’s iconic trees

LA Times  

Firefighters and forest ecologists are again scrambling to save ancient giant sequoia trees from the threat posed by increasingly fast, powerful and destructive wildfires that have raged through California in recent years. So far, Methuselah, a 4,853-year-old bristlecone pine that may be the oldest living tree on Earth, has remained free of bark beetles, Times reporter Louis Sahagun wrote last …

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As Scott Morrison faces COP26, here's how Australia can solve its climate change mess
3 years, 1 month ago

As Scott Morrison faces COP26, here's how Australia can solve its climate change mess

ABC  

In Australia, we've spent the last 14 years watching our politicians knock each other off over it. We're going to outline how Australia's transition towards zero emissions could work over the next decade and what's happening now. We've still got a way to go, but already about 30 per cent of Australia's power every day is generated by renewables, and …

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Climate change could get worse because insects like termites will eat more dead forests, study says
3 years, 3 months ago

Climate change could get worse because insects like termites will eat more dead forests, study says

Daily Mail  

Climate change may intensify as insects such as termites and Longicorn beetles feast on dead forests, resulting in the release of 'over 10 gigatons of carbon' into the atmosphere every year, a new study suggests. Researchers at Australia's Griffith University and Australian National University said these types of insects are response for 29 percent of the carbon from dead wood …

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