Newsletter www.theatlantic.com How climate change helped fuel the U.S. lumber shortage Bitcoin? Blasé. Gold? Going out of style. "The hottest commodity on the planet," according to Dustin Jalbert, an economist at the market-research firm Fastmarkets, is lumber.
Impacts Mountain pine beetles are devastating forests in the worst outbreak ever Despite being smaller than a grain of rice, mountain pine beetles are causing big problems for pine forests across North America.
