Our trees are feeling the heat

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he world’s trees are feeling the heat.

Rolling Stone magazine says: “For decades, all over the planet, heat-aggravated droughts had been killing trees: mountain acacia in Zimbabwe, Mediterranean pine in Greece, Atlas cedar in Morocco, eucalyptus and corymbia in Australia, fir in Turkey and South Korea.”

It says that by the end of the century, the woodlands of the Southwest of America will likely be reduced to weeds and shrubs. And scientists worry that the rest of the planet may see similar effects.

The story - “The Fate of Trees: How Climate Change May Alter Forests Worldwide” – says droughts whose severity was unequalled in the "last few centuries" and documented "climate-driven episodes of regional-scale forest die-off."