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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.

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.
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