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May 3, 2012

Viewed from above, a stump sure looks like a dot

Bill McKibben

A young man in an orange striped shirt stands outdoors holding a cardboard sign that reads "A Freak Spring Snowstorm Killed 1/3 of 100% More Eugene trees" with a small photo attached at the top.
A young man in an orange striped shirt stands outdoors holding a cardboard sign that reads "A Freak Spring Snowstorm Killed 1/3 of 100% More Eugene trees" with a small photo attached at the top.

Weird weather is killing trees around the world–whether from freak snowstorms (this spring saw the latest-ever  big storm in Oregon) or from afflictions like the pine-bark beetle, which can raise an extra generation each summer now because of warmer temperatures