Pine trees with larger resin ducts better able to survive mountain pine beetle attack
Not all pine trees are created equal when it comes to fending off their mortal enemy, the mountain pine beetle.
Not all pine trees are created equal when it comes to fending off their mortal enemy, the mountain pine beetle.
Plants & Animals
Dec 16, 2019
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The sugar pine, with its foot-long cones and feathery branches that stretch out high above the forest, used to be one of the most common trees standing guard over Lake Tahoe's clear waters. But drought, bark beetles and climate ...
Environment
Nov 26, 2019
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What our future forests will look like is a burning question not only for fire ecologists. A look back at 12,000 years of forest fire history now reveals: "Climate roughly defines the general trends of fire activity. However, ...
Environment
Oct 23, 2019
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It's autumn in the Northern Hemisphere—otherwise known as leaf-peeping season. Now is when people head outside to soak up the annual display of orange, red and yellow foliage painted across the landscape.
Plants & Animals
Oct 21, 2019
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In order to meet the demands of growing human populations, agricultural production must double within the next 30 years. Yet the health of today's crops and the promise of their yield face a rising slate of threats—from ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 19, 2019
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Residents forced from their homes when a devastating wildfire erupted on the Spanish holiday island of Gran Canaria began returning Tuesday, although firefighters were still battling to contain the blaze, officials said.
Environment
Aug 21, 2019
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A new study finds that climate change will put many conifer species native to small islands around the world on the road to extinction by 2070, even after allowing for some realistic wiggle room in the range of climate conditions ...
Ecology
Jul 15, 2019
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Researchers from the University of Granada, the Andalusian Institute of Agricultural Research and Training, Fishing, Food and Organic Production (IFAPA), and the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology of the Spanish National Research ...
Environment
Jun 26, 2019
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A church in northern Greece on Wednesday said it would bless a hilltop forest recently devastated by bark beetle attacks.
Environment
Jun 26, 2019
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All living things are divided into six kingdoms: plants, animals, fungi, protists (protozoa and some algae), and two types of bacteria—eubacteria and archaebacteria.
Ecology
Jun 21, 2019
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