Drought and climate threatening U.S. forests

Drought and climate change are now threatening almost all the forests of the continental US, according to new research.

Scientists from 14 laboratories and institutions warn in the journal Global Change Biology that climate is changing faster than tree populations can adapt

Existing forests, effectively and literally rooted to the spot, are experiencing conditions hotter and less reliably rainy than those in which they had evolved.

Read the Climate Home story - “US forests struggle as drought and climate change bite.”