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These beetles are horny for wildfires

Tinder for these insects is actual tinder.
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Are butterflies wildlife? Depends where you live in the U.S.

A legal quirk leaves officials in at least a dozen states with little or no authority to protect insects. That’s a growing problem for humans.
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Bristlecone pines, world's forests are imperiled by climate change

The West’s worst drought in at least 1,200 years had critically weakened bristlecone pines. Voracious bark beetles — a threat to which bristlecones were previously thought immune — delivered the death blow.

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Climate change, logging collide - and a forest shrinks

Looking down a hillside dotted with large stumps and nearly devoid of trees, a pair of retired U.S. Forest Service employees lamented logging policies they helped craft to deal with two harbingers of climate change - pine beetles and wildfires.

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Beetles, drought, and fires are a ticking time bomb in the West

From California to Oregon, a tiny insect is transforming forests with a little help from climate change.
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How climate change helped fuel the U.S. lumber shortage

Bitcoin? Blasé. Gold? Going out of style. "The hottest commodity on the planet," according to Dustin Jalbert, an economist at the market-research firm Fastmarkets, is lumber.

How non-native plants are contributing to a global insect decline
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How non-native plants are contributing to a global insect decline

Recent research provides new evidence that the displacement of native plant communities is a key cause of a collapse in insect populations and is affecting birds as well.

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