Tree Die Off Article Compilation

 
An image Dave Muffly took of oaks that are dieing off and the surrounding trees and ground coverage is dry.
 

Most people seem unaware that trees - virtually all native - are dying in large numbers, all over the planet. This is a compilation derived from a simple web search. I suspect many more such articles can be found. This dying is exactly what forest ecologists have been warning us will happen with climate change, literally for decades.

At the bottom is a video.

Blue Ridge Mountains

https://www.blueridgeoutdoors.com/go-outside/trees-in-trouble/


Seattle

https://www.greenseattle.org/western-redcedar-die-off-in-seattle-parks/


Oregon

https://facilities.uw.edu/blog/posts/2018/09/07/whats-killing-birch-trees


Southwestern United States

https://news.arizona.edu/story/underlying-cause-massive-pinyon-pine-die-revealed


West Coast Bigleaf Maple

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2xpIsE97Ng


California

https://mashable.com/article/california-tree-die-off-climate-change/


Eastern United States

https://www.pennlive.com/gardening/2017/04/kiss_your_ash_trees_goodbye_un.html


Joshua Trees Facing Extinction

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190716073719.htm


Oregon

https://www.oregonlive.com/hg/2018/07/beware_these_voracious_pests_p.html


Colorado

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130211135005.htm


Regional Die Offs

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1250231/


Baobab

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/06/baobab-trees-dying-climate-change/562499/


California

https://www.hcn.org/issues/48.21/latest-the-tree-die-off-in-california-is-bigger-than-you-thought

Amazon

https://www.skepticalscience.com/Amazon-Drought-Heat-Stress-Linked-To-Mass-Tree-Die-Off-In-2005-and-2010.html


California

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/19/tree-death-california-hawaii-sudden-oak


Washington State

https://www.dnr.wa.gov/news/bark-beetles-attacking-drought-stressed-douglas-fir-trees-across-washington


Michigan

https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/emerald_ash_borer_devastating_michigan_trees


Colorado

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/whats-killing-the-aspen-93130832/


Houston

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Millions-of-trees-likely-to-die-due-to-drought-2153585.php


California

https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2016/11/18/new-aerial-survey-identifies-more-100-million-dead-trees-california


Missouri

https://fox2now.com/news/stress-factors-causing-tree-die-off-in-missouri/


Australia

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-killed-northern-australias-mangroves-180962520/


British Columbia

http://www.virdigrisgardening.com/arbutus-tree-die-off-a-menziessi-what-is-happening/


Oregon

https://extension.oregonstate.edu/forests/health-managment/why-are-my-trees-dying


Alaska

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/11/mass-death-yellow-cedar-climate-change-canary-tree-book/


Western United States

https://e360.yale.edu/features/whats_killing_the_great_forests_of_the_american_west


Hawaii

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/30823180/state-seeks-to-head-off-massive-tree-die-off-on-hawaii-island/


Pacific Coast Trail

https://www.pcta.org/2017/dead-dying-forests-46801/


Northern Boreal Forests

https://e360.yale.edu/features/the_rapid_and_startling_decline_of_worlds_vast_boreal_forests


Croatia

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02082019/extreme-heat-wave-climate-change-attribution-europe-almond-trees-fish-hottest-july-june


Southwestern United States

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/new-mexico-plateau-named-for-birds-seeing-them-die-off/article_8fae2974-3d14-5659-9291-c22db1a3a993.html


A Warning From 2009

https://www.wired.com/2009/01/deadtrees/


Overall Biodiversity Extinction Crisis

https://www.wunc.org/post/1-million-animal-and-plant-species-are-risk-extinction-un-report-says


Velocity of Climate Change

https://www.climatecentral.org/news/ecosystems-face-unprecedented-changes-in-the-next-century-16301


Tree Mortality Canada

https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/climate-change/impacts-adaptations/climate-change-impacts-forests/forest-change-indicators/tree-mortality/17785

Dave Muffly

A Stanford grads who has helped plant 50,000 to 100,000 trees in his lifetime.

https://oaktopia.org
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