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  2. Deforestation and climate change - Wikipedia

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    [10] [11] The relationship between deforestation and climate change is one of a positive (amplifying) climate feedback. [12] The more trees that are removed equals larger effects of climate change which, in turn, results in the loss of more trees. [13] Forests cover 31% of the land area on Earth.

  3. Effects of climate change on biomes - Wikipedia

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    Similarly, the already dry forest areas in central Alaska and far eastern Russia are also experiencing greater drought, [70] placing birch trees under particular stress, [71] while Siberia's needle-shedding larches are replaced with evergreen conifers - a change which also affects the area's albedo (evergreen trees absorb more heat than the ...

  4. The Evergreen State is losing its trees. Here’s how ... - AOL

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    Maple trees change color at Lake Padden on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021, in Bellingham, Wash. University of Washington researchers and government agencies say climate change is the reason for the ...

  5. Taiga - Wikipedia

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    It has been hypothesized that the boreal environments have only a few states which are stable in the long term - a treeless tundra/steppe, a forest with >75% tree cover and an open woodland with ~20% and ~45% tree cover. Thus, continued climate change would be able to force at least some of the presently existing taiga forests into one of the ...

  6. As California's climate grows ever more hostile, a Joshua ...

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    A Joshua tree in Juniper Hills is engulfed by the Bobcat fire in 2020. Wildfires, along with climate change and habitat loss, are taking an increasing toll on Joshua trees in California.

  7. Evergreen - Wikipedia

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    Evergreen trees also lose leaves, but each tree loses its leaves gradually and not all at once. Most tropical rainforest plants are considered to be evergreens, replacing their leaves gradually throughout the year as the leaves age and fall, whereas species growing in seasonally arid climates may be either evergreen or deciduous.

  8. How California eco-bureaucrats halted a Pacific Palisades ...

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    The good news for the milkvetch plant is that they usually need wildfire to sprout — meaning dormant seeds now have a massive new habitat for a new crop of the rare shrub.

  9. Tipping points in the climate system - Wikipedia

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    In Siberia, the taiga is converting from predominantly needle-shedding larch trees to evergreen conifers in response to a warming climate. Subsequent research in Canada found that even in the forests where biomass trends did not change, there was a substantial shift towards the deciduous broad-leaved trees with higher drought tolerance over the ...