NASA Satellites Reveal Connection Between Mountain Pine Beetle Infestation and Wild Fires (Video)
By admin on Sep 10, 2010 in Travel and Holiday
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Mountain pine beetles have been a problem for many years, especially the last decade. Warming temperatures have helped the destructive insect move into new territories. Their booming numbers and rapid spread have meant death for large patches of forests. Now NASA satellites have been able to detest these masses of forests killed off by the beetles and researchers have looked at how the damage done by the beetles is linked to forest fires — or as N… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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