Over the past several months news of widespread wildfires has coursed through the media from every corner of the world. In the United States, the wildfire season is now two months longer than it was 100 years ago. In 2015 ...
Environment
Nov 23, 2015
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Firefighters in Croatia have been on high alert during this current fire season. Raging wildfires off the coast on the islands of Korcula and Brac as well as two major fires on the Peljesac Peninsula have wreaked havoc on ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 24, 2015
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A research team has assessed the causes of growth decline of a pine forest of great ecological interest in Spain.
Environment
Jul 14, 2015
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Researchers at the University of Georgia have a message for Southern tree farmers worried about unexplainable pine tree deaths: Don't panic.
Ecology
Jul 3, 2015
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New research from the University of Alberta's Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences shows that pine beetle attacks not only lead to the death of adult trees, but can also leave the next generation of pine ...
Ecology
Jun 23, 2015
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After virtually disappearing from New Jersey, northern bobwhite quail were reintroduced into that state's Pine Barrens on April 1 as the result of a three-year collaboration that includes the University of Delaware's College ...
Ecology
Apr 15, 2015
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A newly-discovered species of tree-killing bark beetle, Dendroctonus mesoamericanus Armendáriz-Toledano and Sullivan, has been described in a paper published online in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America by ...
Ecology
Apr 14, 2015
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Scientists for the first time have simultaneously compared widespread impacts from two of the most common forest insects in the West – mountain pine beetle and western spruce budworm – an advance that could lead to more ...
Environment
Mar 2, 2015
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When the mountain pine beetle began blazing a path across forests in British Columbia and Alberta, nobody could have imagined the extent of the damage to come. But as the insect devastated pine forests and disrupted communities, ...
Ecology
Aug 27, 2014
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Lodgepole pine forests recover within a century following severe wildfires, according to a three-year study led by the University of Idaho in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park. The research gives a benchmark for better ...
Environment
May 20, 2014
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