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View In: US ForestsClimate change and an environment in peril were visible in many of 2022’s defining moments: record-smashing heat waves in Europe and South Asia, droughts pushing the fragile global food system to its limit and energy and food markets shaken by war in Ukraine.  Climate change also left its fingerprint...

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‘Firmageddon’: Oregon conifers suffer record die-off as climate crisis hits hard
Gabrielle Canon
6–7 minutes

Scientists have discovered a record number of dead fir trees in Oregon, in a foreboding sign of how drought and the climate crisis are ravaging the American west.

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Yale E360
View In: US ForestsAmericans are moving away from parts of the Midwest that are prone to heat waves, but are moving into regions in the West that are increasingly vulnerable to wildfires, according to a 10-year study. Read more on E360 →

Grist
View In: US ForestsHomeowners fear the state will devalue their properties by publicizing their fire risk.

Yale E360
View In: US ForestsIn just 10 years, fires, drought, and insect infestations have devastated close to a third of forests in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains, a new study finds.Read more on E360 →

Yale Universities Climate Connections
View In: US ForestsWith a new $4.5 million grant, the Shelterwood Collective will manage the land using Indigenous methods. The post Community forest project brings together people who have been excluded from environmentalism appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.