Kyle Hemes News Today

For the second time in three years, central U.S. producers are having to cope with the uncertainty of wildfire smokes impact on crops.

The researchers created maps showing where warmer weather has left trees in conditions that don’t suit them, making them more prone to being replaced by other species. The findings could help inform long-term wildfire and ecosystem management in these “zombie forests.”

To meet an ambitious goal of carbon neutrality by 2045, California’s policymakers are relying in part on forests and shrublands to remove CO 2 from the atmosphere, but researchers at the University of California, Irvine warn that future climate change may limit the ecosystem’s ability to perform this service. In a paper published today in the American Geophysical Union journal  AGU Advances, the UCI Earth system scientists stressed that rising temperatures and uncertain precipitation will...