Newsletterwww.flickr.com ‘Firmageddon’: Oregon conifers suffer record die-off as climate crisis hits hard More than a million acres of state forest contain trees that have succumbed to stressors exacerbated by a multi-year drought.
Impactscommons.wikimedia.org Massive die-off hits fir trees across Pacific Northwest Labeled “Firmageddon,” by researchers, the drought-driven “mortality event” is the largest ever recorded in the region.
Newsletter www.nationalgeographic.com Climate troubles loom for South Korea’s ‘Christmas Tree Island’ These unique fir trees can’t handle much heat, and have lost nearly half the wild population in 20 years.
