[PCA] NEWS: Beetles, wildfire: Double threat in warming world

Olivia Kwong plant at plantconservation.org
Mon Aug 24 09:32:30 CDT 2009


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/climate_09_beetles_and_smoke

Beetles, wildfire: Double threat in warming world
By Charles J. Hanley, AP Special Correspondent -- Sun Aug 23, 3:52 pm ET

HAINES JUNCTION, Yukon Territory -- A veil of smoke settled over the 
forest in the shadow of the St. Elias Mountains, in a wilderness whose 
spruce trees stood tall and gray, a deathly gray even in the greenest 
heart of a Yukon summer.

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