Getting at the root of the mountain pine beetle's rapid habitat expansion and forest
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 16:00
in Earth & Climate
The mountain pine beetle has wreaked havoc in North America, across forests from the American Southwest to British Columbia and Alberta, with the potential to spread all the way to the Atlantic coast. Millions of acres of forest have been lost, with severe economic and ecological impacts from a beetle outbreak ten times larger than previous outbreaks.