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Climate Change Pushes Aspens to Brink

New weather patterns exacerbate other issues, like the nasty bark beetle

By Victoria Floethe,  Newser User

Posted Dec 21, 2008 5:53 AM CST

(Newser) – Huge swaths of the Rocky Mountain landscape is being transformed as the region's signature tree, the aspen, goes into rapid decline, reports the Smithsonian. Climate change and surging population of the bark beetle is causing the grim phenomenon known as SAD (sudden aspen decline). The...   Read full story »

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