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Wooden Worries, Part II

-- Alex -- 03/13/2007

Wooden Worries, Part II

Trees encroaching on Arctic tundra is probably not a solution to the deforestation Adam documented in his last blog entry. According to the Journal of Ecology, scientists at the University of Alberta have found:

"Rising temperatures fueled by global warming are causing forests of spruce trees to invade Arctic tundra ... evicting and endangering the species that dwell there and only there" 

Yet another disconcerting and unintended consequence of climate change.