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The Beetles Revolution
Mountain pine beetles fueling climate change via tree deaths |
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24 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 9:38 AM on 24 Apr 2008 Ravenous populations of mountain pine beetles in Canada's forests are contributing significantly to climate change through killing off large numbers of trees, according to a study in the journal Nature. So far, the beetles have killed trees in over 50,000 square miles of forests in western Canada, and hundreds of thousands of square miles in the western United States. "When ... |
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