Study shows pine beetle outbreak buffers watersheds from nitrate pollution

Monday, January 14, 2013 - 17:31 in Earth & Climate

A research team involving several scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder has found an unexpected silver lining in the devastating pine beetle outbreaks ravaging the West: Such events do not harm water quality in adjacent streams as scientists had previously believed.

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