Healthy forests are especially important at a time of climate change — they’re an incredible tool to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Dead forests, on the other hand, can light the spark for wildfires, which are already showing a long-predicted uptick in activity.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
This disease has killed a million trees in California, and scientists say it’s basically unstoppable
By Chris Mooney
May 2, 2016 at 4:53 p.m. EDT