Pitch pine forests are at greater risk of attack from the southern pine beetle than forests with a mix of tree species, according to research from Dartmouth College. The study shows that the composition of forests is more ...
Environment
Apr 16, 2018
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Throughout most of World War II, Allied bombers tried repeatedly to sink the Tirpitz, Germany's biggest battleship and a bete noir of Britain's wartime leader Winston Churchill, who took to calling it 'the beast'.
Earth Sciences
Apr 11, 2018
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Researchers at the University of British Columbia have shed new light on how mountain pine beetles produce an important pheromone called trans-verbenol, which could aid in efforts to better predict outbreaks.
Plants & Animals
Mar 19, 2018
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A hybrid population of mountain pine beetles is set to do further damage to one of Canada's most iconic regions.
Plants & Animals
Feb 19, 2018
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Over the next few decades, global warming-related rises in winter temperatures could significantly extend the range of the southern pine beetle—one of the world's most aggressive tree-killing insects—through much of the ...
Environment
Aug 28, 2017
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Slow-growing ponderosa pines may have a better chance of surviving mountain pine beetle outbreaks in western Montana as climate change increases the frequency of drought and insect pests, according to new research published ...
Environment
Jun 28, 2017
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Climate change is altering the environment in Yellowstone National Park and its surrounding region and scientists at the University of California San Diego and Unity College are studying its impacts on the diets of threatened ...
Ecology
May 11, 2017
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The mountain pine beetle has destroyed more than 40 million acres of forest in the western United States. That amounts to an area the size of Washington state that is strewn with conifers left for dead.
Energy & Green Tech
May 2, 2017
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Colorado's beetle-infested forests are peppered with an estimated 834 million standing dead trees that threaten to worsen wildfires and degrade vital water supplies that flow from mountains, officials said Wednesday.
Environment
Feb 15, 2017
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Over the past three years, Honduras has lost a quarter of its pine forests to a plague of bark-munching beetles.
Ecology
Feb 5, 2017
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