As Forests Disappear, Examining the Mechanisms of Their Death

New York Times: The boreal forests of Canada and Russia are being devoured by beetles. Drought-tolerant pines are disappearing in Greece. In North Africa, Atlas cedars are shriveling. Wet and dry tropical forests in Asia are collapsing. Australian eucalyptus forests are burning. The Amazon basin has just been hit by two severe droughts. And it's predicted that trees in the American Southwest may be gone by the end of this century. But as this astonishing transformation of landscapes continues, scientists have a...

URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/science/los-alamos-national-laboratory-studies-tree-deaths.html
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