National Geographic - UK (2022-05)

JEFF FROST (FLAP)SUE CAG; GARTH LENZ On a burnt slope in the Sierra Nevada, their only native home, giant sequoias—some more tha ...

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MATTHEW ABBOTT Years of high heat and drought had stressed mangroves along hundreds of miles of the Gulf of Carpentaria coast. T ...

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ANTOINE BOUREAU Snow blankets a boreal forest that burned the previous summer in the Sakha Republic. Small fires occur regularly ...

GARTH LENZ Forest scientists are struggling to figure out a response to “sudden aspen decline,” as they call the die- offs that ...

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KEITH LADZINSKI Yet these icons of the Mojave Desert already faced other threats. Seedlings appear less often as temperatures ri ...

SOFIA JARAMILLO THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE in this fire-scarred forest is the color. Not long ago this square of land south of Y ...

feet that covering a distance they normally would walk in seconds took almost an hour. In the end they counted 2,286 baby trees ...

already are only a small fraction of the three tril- lion trees and 10 billion acres of forest on this planet. Climate change st ...

Monica Turner’s who retired last year from the U.S. Geological Survey. He’s been trying to alert people to that danger for two d ...

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VICTOR MORIYAMA Six months after Australia’s mangrove die-off in 2015, the same El Niño caused a storm that hit man- groves in t ...

MAC STONE Seawater seeps into aquifers and freshwa- ter wetlands, killing vegetation such as these bald cypresses near Eagles Is ...

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trees protect themselves with deeper roots, for example, or by storing more water—but those investments come at the expense of g ...

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