An example from US Forest Service of projected US range loss - for sugar maple - with high emissions.
1 of MANY species, from http://www.fs.fed.us/nrs/atlas/tree/.
Habitat in 2100, but actual distribution will lag, as trees are long-lived.
Domino Effect - Melting Greenland Ice Could Trigger Amazon Rainforest Collapse 0325.rtf
Mato Grosso Law Overturns Soy Moratorium That Curbed Amazon Deforestation 1124.rtf
The World’s Carbon Sinks Are on Fire 1024.rtf
Deforestation ‘Roaring Back’ 1024.rtf - summed around the world. Indonesia accelreated its deforestation a lot. But Brazil cut its deforestion.
Amazon Rainforest Shrinks, as Parts Turn into Savanna and Dry Forest - 0924.rtf
As Earth Gets Hotter, Could Helping Trees Migrate North Protect Them? 0824.rtf
Methane Emissions Are Pushing the Amazon toward Environmental Catastrophe 0824.rtf
Over 1:2 of Kew Botanical Garden Tree Species Risk Death from Climate Crisis 0724.rtf
Tree-Killing Beetles Wreak Havoc, Threaten to End Great Northern Forests 0624.rtf
A Collapse of the Amazon Could Be Coming 0224.rtf
Can Forests Be More Profitable than Beef? 0524.rtf - a question for the Amazon region
Are Rainforests Doomed? Not Necessarily. 0424.rtf
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Amazon Rainforest, after 65 Million Years of Climate Changes, Faces Collapse 0224.rtf
‘Biodiversity Catastrophe’ - How Earth Could Look in 2050, unless We Act Now 1123.rtf
Amazon Deforestation Linked to West Antarctic Melt and Less Snowfall in Tibet 1023.rtf
Rising Temperatures Are Wreaking Havoc Year-Round 0823.rtf - Bark beetles are wreaking havoc in US forests, as their larva surive not-as-cold winter temperatures, now in large numbers as far as New Jersey.
Bark Beetles Are Eating Germany’s Harz Forest. Climate Change Makes It Worse. 0823.rtf
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon Falls in 1st Month under Lula 0223.rtf
Why California’s Trees Are Dying by the Millions 0223.rtf
Why Western US Wildfires Destroyed 246% More Homes & Buildings This Decade 0223.rtf
Drought, Plague and Fire - What One Colorado Forest Is Up Against 0223.rtf
In a Warming World, California’s Trees Keep Dying 0123.rtf
How Seriously Climate Change Is Threatening Madagascar’s Famous Forests 0123.rtf
How the Amazon Rainforest Dies 1122.rtf - If somewhere between 20 and 25% of the forest were lost, models suggested, much of the Amazon would perish. About 18% of the rainforest is now gone, and the evidence increasingly supports the warnings. Whether or not the tipping point has arrived — and some scientists think it has — the Amazon is beginning to collapse. More than 3/4 of the rainforest, research indicates, is showing signs of lost resilience. In fire-scorched areas of the Rio Negro floodplains, one research group noted a “drastic ecosystem shift” that has reduced jungle to savanna. In the southeastern Amazon, which has been assaulted by rapacious cattle ranching, trees are dying off and being pushed aside by species better acclimated to drier climes. In the southwestern Amazon, fast-growing bamboo is overtaking lands ravaged by fire and drought.
Has the Amazon Reached Its ‘Tipping Point(s)’? Savannah? Scrubland? 0123.rtf
Oregon Conifers Suffer Record Die-Off as Climate Crisis Hits Hard 1222.rtf
Large Wild Herbivores May Help Slow Climate Change 1222.rtf
EU’S New Climate Change Plan Will Cause Biodiversity Loss, Deforestation 1222.rtf
Deforestation Is Pushing Amazon Rainforest to ‘Point of No Return’ 1122.rtf
How Does Forest Restoration in the U.S. Southwest Look with Climate Change? 1022.rtf
GT (Huge) Carbon Net Loss in Forests of Canada, Amazon & Australia + Permafrost 0922.rtf
Forest Loss in East Brazil Changes How Close the Amazon Is to a Tipping Point 0922.rtf
Climate Change Threatens Health and Survival of Urban Trees 0922.rtf - Boreal forests are moving north, retreating from the south and advancing into the tundra.
Mass Death of Sequoias Is the Harbinger of Earth Systems Collapse 0822.rtf
Wildfires Are Destroying California's Forest Carbon Credit Reserves 0822.rtf
'Staggering' Rate of Global Tree Losses from Fires 0822.rtf
How Deforestation Is Pushing the Amazon toward a Tipping Point 0722.rtf
Global Heating Has Caused Shocking Changes in Forests across the Americas 0822.rtf
Climate Change’s Impact Intensifies, Led by Arctic 0822.rtf
‘In 10 Years, We Might Not Have Forests’- DRC Struggles to Halt Charcoal Trade 0722.rtf
World’s Largest Trees Are Struggling to Survive Climate Change 0622.rtf - in Sequoia National Park
In an Increasingly Warmer World, Trees Are Not a Climate Change Cure-All 0522.rtf
Experts Fear These Forests Could Shift from Absorbing CO2 to Emitting It 0422.rtf
Massive Wildfires Helped Fuel Global Forest Losses in 2021 - 0422.rtf
The World Has Been Losing 10 Soccer Fields of Tropical Forest Per Minute 0422.rtf
Tropical Trees’ Growth and CO2 Intake Hit by More Extreme Dry Seasons 0422.rtf
Amazon Rainforest Hurtles toward a Tipping Point, Can't Recover from Droughts, Logging 0322.rtf
Lumber Prices Rose, in Part, due to Warmer Weather, Pine Beetles 0222.rtf
Unnatural Disasters Plague Canada's Forests, Half Our Tree Species May Disappear 0222.rtf
Tipping Points Passed? (4) Forests and the Amazon - a Faltering Carbon Sink 0122.rtf
Lumber Prices Are off the Rails Again. Blame Climate Change. 0122.rtf
Tropical Forests Can Recover from Deforestation Remarkably Fast if Near Forests 1221.rtf
Germany's Forest Fight 1221.rtf
Wildfires Are Erasing Western Forests. Climate Change Is Making It Permanent. 1121.rtf
Sleeping Beauty's Forest Is Dying, Climate Crisis Faces Next German Chancellor 0921.rtf
Bolsonaro’s 1,000 km Amazon Railway Will Cause Climate Chaos. We Must Stop It 0721.rtf
Hotter and Drier - Deforestation and Wildfires Take a Toll on the Amazon 0721.rtf
As Frozen Land Burns, Siberia Fears that without the Forest, We Don’t Have Life 0721.rtf
The Brazilian Amazon Is Burning, Again 0621.rtf
Settlers Invade, Deforest Colombian National Parks at ‘Unstoppable Speed’ 0521.rtf
Trees Fell Faster since Companies, Governments Promised to Stop Felling Them 0521.rtf
Latest Warning of Rainforest Turning into Savanna as Climate Warms 0321.rtf
Tropical Forest Destruction Accelerated in 2020 - 0321.rtf
Is This the End of Forests as We’ve Known Them? 0321.rtf
2:3 of Tropical Rainforest Destroyed or Degraded Globally 0321.rtf
As Amazon Forest-to-Savanna Tipping Point Looms, Solutions Remain Elusive 0221.rtf
Large Wild Herbivores May Help Slow Climate Change 1222.rtf - By removing living and dead plants, large animals dispose of material that may fuel wildfires. By consuming vegetation and excreting dung, they may improve availability of nutrients to plants and support the storage of carbon in vegetation and soil. By creating gaps in the vegetation and dispersing seeds, they create diverse ecosystems with plenty of opportunities for a variety of plants to grow, making ecosystems more resilient and better able to deal with climate change. By nibbling down polar region shrubs and trampling snow, large animals help maintain permafrost, helping prevent the release of carbon to the atmosphere.
Tropical Forests Can Take the Heat. But Dryness? Not So Much 1220.rtf
Brazil's Amazon - Deforestation Surges to 12-Year High 1120.rtf
Warming Planet Makes Northeastern Forests More Susceptible to Western-Style Wildfires 1120.rtf
Climate Doesn’t Just Worsen Wildfires, It Hobbles Forests’ Ability to Recover 0920.rtf
Forest Degradation Outpaces Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon 1020.rtf
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Amazon near Tipping Point of Switch from Rainforest to Savannah 1020.rtf
Germany’s Forests Decimated by Insects, Drought 0720.rtf
Scientists Try Assisted Migration to Help Trees Survive Climate Change 0720.rtf
‘Going in the Wrong Direction’ - More Tropical Forest Loss in 2019 - 0620.rtf
Climate Change, Deforestation Harm Old-Growth Forests 0520.rtf
Forests Are Vanishing More Slowly, but Not Slowly Enough 0520.rtf
Amazon Deforestation Increases for 13th Straight Month in Brazil 0520.rtf
Amazon Rainforest Reaches Point of No Return 0320.rtf
Record-High Global Tree Cover Loss Driven by Agriculture 0320.rtf
Amazon Deforestation 'at Highest Level in a Decade' 1119.rtf
Biggest Tropical Wetlands Ravaged by Fires in Brazil 1119.rtf
Climate Emissions from Tropical Forest Damage Underestimated by a Factor of 6 - 1019.rtf
What Happens to Soil Microbes after Wildfire? 1019.rtf - savannah, fires more often, cerrado trees
Some Forests Are Not Growing Back after Wildfires, Research Finds 1217.rtf
Deforestation Is Worsening, 5 Years after Nations & Companies Vowed to Stop It 0919.rtf
What Happens When the Amazon Forest Disappears? 1019.rtf
What Would Happen if All the World’s Trees Disappeared? 0919.rtf - Earth would become a vastly warmer planet (more than +12°C since industrial revolution began), whose mass extinctions may include humans.
Bolivian Wildfires Destroy 2 Million Hectares (8,000 Square Miles) of Forest 0919.rtf
Northern Ecuadorian Region Has Lost 61% of Forests 0919.rtf
‘It’s Really Close’ - How the Amazon Rainforest Could Self-Destruct 0819.rtf - 20-25% deforestation would drive runaway dieback, fueld by ever less rainfall due to less forest. 19.3% is Brazil’s government’s estimate of deforestation.
The Amazon, Siberia, Indonesia - A World of Fire 0819.rtf
Stability of Earth's Climate Depends on Amazonia 0819.rtf
Amazon Fires Could Accelerate Global Warming, Harm Biodiversity for Centuries 0819.rtf
Tree-Damaging Pests Pose ‘Devastating’ Threat to 40% of US Forests 0819.rtf
Charred Forests Not Growing Back as Expected in Pacific Northwest 0719.rtf
California’s Drought Killed Almost 150 Million Trees 0719.rtf
Some of Pennsylvania’s Iconic Tree Species Might Not Survive Climate Change 0619.rtf
Climate Change May Make trees Live Fast and Die Young 0519.rtf
Iconic Forests Reaching Climate Tipping Points in American West 0319.rtf - take 1 on study
Climate Change Will Make a Walk in the Woods a Much Rarer Pleasure 0319.rtf - take 2
Adapt to a Changing Amazon Now, or Pay Far Higher Price Later, Experts Say 1218.rtf
Haiti May Lose All Primary Forest by 2035, Mass Extinction Underway 1118.rtf
Grasslands May Be More Reliable Carbon Sinks than Forests in California 0718.rtf
Tracking the Shift of Tropical Forests from Carbon Sink to Source 0718.rtf
Brazil’s Political Storm Driving Amazon Deforestation Higher 0718.rtf
Tropical Forests Suffered Near-Record Tree Losses in 2017 - 0618.rtf
Could El Niño and Climate Change Spell the End for Tropical Forests? 0618.rtf
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Tree Killing Fungi and Insects Increasingly Contribute to Climate Change 0518.rtf
Dwindling Desert Dust Spells Danger for the Amazon 0518.rtf
Climate Change, Wildfire, and the Future of Forests 0418.rtf - Forests now often don’t regenertate after fires. They need more heat-tolerant species or become savannahs and grasslands. Forestys retreat upslope.
Half of Alberta's Boreal Forest Could Disappear from Fires and Climate Change 0318.rtf
12,000 Square Miles of Australian Forest to Be Lost in 15 Years 0318.rtf
Vermont Forests Vulnerable to Climate Change 0218.rtf
Beech Booming as Climate Changes. That’s Bad for Forests. 0218.rtf
Carbon Pricing Could Save Millions of Hectares of Tropical Forest 0218.rtf
Australian Trees ‘Sweat' (without Photosynthesis) to Survive Extreme Heat Waves 0118.rtf
With Climate Change, Tree Die-Offs May Spread in the West 1217.rtf
How Climate Change Is Impacting the American West Right Now 1217.rtf
Mangroves Lack the Genetic Diversity to Adapt to Climate Change 1217.rtf
Why the Forest Carbon Sink Is Disappearing - Death by 1,000 Cuts 0917.rtf
Future of Oldest Tree Species on Earth in Peril 0917.rtf
Swiss Trees Swelter as Climate Warms 0817.rtf
A Nebraska-Sized Area of Forest Disappeared in 2015 - 0717.rtf
California Forests Failing to Regrow After Intense Wildfires 1216.rtf
Unhealthy Forests Affect Distant Ecosystems 1216.rtf
Amazon Rainforest Destruction Is Speeding Up, When Earth Can Least Afford It 1216.rtf
Mapping Shows Extent of Alaska Yellow-Cedar Die-off, Forecasts big Losses 1116.rtf
Why India Is Becoming a Drier, Hotter and Angrier Country 1116.rtf
Deforestation Forces Up Brazil’s Carbon Emissions 1116.rtf
Balsam Fir May Disappear in New Brunswick, Due to Climate Change 0916.rtf
Turning up the Heat to Push Many Australian Plants to the Brink 0916.rtf
Rising Temperatures Stunt Tree Growth 0816.rtf
Drought Shut Down Amazon Carbon Sink 0716.rtf
Global Warming to Spur More Fires in Alaska, in Turn Causing More Warming 0516.rtf
Queensland's Mangrove Ecosystem Dying in Secret 0516.rtf
Fort McMurray Blaze Set the Stage for Even Bigger, Hotter Wildfires 0516.rtf
Let’s Save Uganda’s Disappearing Forests 0316.rtf
China's Success Regrowing Its Forests Has a Flip Side - Deforestation Elsewhere 0316.rtf
US Forests Struggle, as Drought and Climate Change Bite 0316.rtf
Africa’s Forests ‘Threatened by Palm Oil Rush' 0216.rtf
Drought’s Alarming Toll on California Forests 0216.rtf
California Drought Could Kill 58 Million Trees, Terrible News Future Water Supply 1215.rtf
Climate Change Could Cause a ‘Massive’ Tree Die-off in the US Southwest 1215.rtf - 2°C is huge for trees.
More than Half the Amazon Tree Species Are at Risk of Extinction 1115.rtf
Forest Dieback Could Undermine U.S. Plans to Cut CO2 Emissions 1115.rtf
Indonesia Blazes Threaten Endangered Orangutans 1115.rtf - peat +. fires produce more CO2 than Germany or Japan.
Climate Change, Wildfire Seen Transforming Northwest Forests 1015.rtf
US Forests Threatened, as Demand for Wood-Based Biofuels Grows 1015.rtf
Indonesian Fires Are Pouring Huge Amounts of Carbon into the Atmosphere 1015.rtf
Alaskan Wildfires Could Make Global Warming Worse 1015.rtf - Soils, permafrost too.
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Rapid and Startling Decline of World’s Vast Boreal Forests 1015.rtf
Tinderbox of the World - the World’s Northern Forests 1015.rtf
Deforestation Halved over Past Decades 0915.rtf
Tree Loss Slows, but Covers Area Twice the Size of Portugal in 2014 - 0915.rtf
Northern Forests Face Onslaught from Heat and Drought 0815.rtf
Massive Wildfires Transform Siberian Paradise (by Lake Baikal) into Disaster Area 0815.rtf
Earth Is on Track to Lose an India-Sized Chunk of Tropical Forests by 2050 - 0815.rtf
Climate Change Is Forcing Boreal Forest to Tipping Point 0815.rtf
The Forests of the World Are in Major Trouble 0815.rtf
Haze Chokehold Spurring Efforts to Save Indonesia’s Forests 0815.rtf
Andes' Migrating Trees Are Moving towards Extinction 0815.rtf
Drought Damages Trees' Ability to Store Carbon 0715.rtf
Drought Kills 12 Million Trees in California's National Forests 0515.rtf
Global Warming Is Already Clobbering the Amazon 0415.rtf
Climate Change Threatens to Kill Off More Aspen Forests by 2050s - 0315.rtf
The Southwest’s Most Important Number - Vapor Pressure Deficit 0115.rtf
Moisture Shortfall, Heat Threaten Southwestern Forests 0115.rtf
Success of ‘Land Sparing' Will Depend on Global Economics, Regulations 1214.rtf
Beetles Ravaging Tucson's Big Pines 1214.rtf
Drying Amazon Could Be Major Carbon Concern 1014.rtf
Fewer Aspens in Colorado's Future 1014.rtf
Summer Heat, Invasive Insects Take Toll on Interior Alaska Birch Trees 1014.rtf
Climate Change affects Canada’s Northern Forests Faster than Global Average 0914.rtf
Brazil Says Amazon Deforestation Rate Up for First Time in Years 0914.rtf
Rockies' Pines, Firs Lose Majority of Habitat on Current Climate Path 0914.rtf
Canada Leads World in Forest Decline 0914.rtf
Will Iconic Sequoias Fall to Climate Change? 0814.rtf
A Clearing in the Trees 0814.rtf
Japanese Red Cedars, etc. to Replace Britain's Oaks, Due to Climate Change 0814.rtf
Another Key Forest on Brink of Depletion by Loggers, Charcoal Burners 0814.rtf
Canada’s Boreal Forests Are Burning – and Releasing Loads of Carbon 0714.rtf
Deforestation, Drought Push Amazon Toward Destruction by Fire 0414.rtf
Sky-High Race Against Time for Amazon Biodiversity 1213.rtf
High Resolution Global Maps Show Increasing Forest Loss in Tropics 1113.rtf
Precarious Future Looms for Canada’s Great Inland Delta 1113.rtf
Indonesia’s Forests Are Shrinking, Despite Reforms 1013.rtf
Saving the Great North Woods 1013.rtf
Deforestation Sparks Concern in Amazon 0813.rtf
Once Resilient, Trees In US West Now More Vulnerable To Fires 0713.rtf
Mega-Drought in US Southwest Is Bad Omen for Forests Globally 0613.rtf
Climate Change Threatens Giant Sequoias 0313.rtf
Climate Change Thins Forests in Eastern US 0213.rtf
How Warmed Trees Die of Thirst and Starve 1212.rtf
Mighty Old Trees Are Perishing Fast 1212.rtf
New England Hardwood Forests to Take Big Hit from Warming 1112.rtf
Drought Puts Trees the World Over ‘At the Edge’ 1112.rtf
Climate Change Killing Sahel Trees 1211.rtf
Insect Destruction of US Forests Rises 3-fold 0711.rtf
Bugged Forests Bad for Climate 1210.rtf
Steeper Decline of Mangrove Forests 0810.rtf
Deforestation Takes 3 Stages per Patch 0810.rtf
Amazon Forest Mostly Doomed 0309.rtf
2°C Rise Would Trigger 20-40% Amazon Rainforest Die-off 0609.rtf
Forests Dying in US West from Climate Change 0109.rtf
Climate Change Could Shrink Amazon Rainforest 85% 0309.rtf
Sumatran Rainforest Will Mostly Disappear within 20 Years 0513.rtf
Brazil Rain Forest Deforestation Leads to Seed Shrinkage 0513.rtf
A Clearing in the Trees 0814.rtf
See 4 measures at R: deforest in % & sq km / yr; forest cover in % & sq km.
Trees Stalled Effects of Global Heating in Eastern US 0224.rtf
Forest Research Links Carbon Uptake and Water Use 0622.rtf
Climate, Carbon-Cycle Effects of Fossil-Fuel Use vs Deforestation Disturbances 0522.rtf
Across the Boreal Forest, Scientists Are Tracking Warming’s Toll 0122.rtf
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Human-Driven Climate Change Is Changing the Colors of Fall Foliage 1020.rtf
Shorter Lifespan of Faster-Growing Trees Will Add to Climate Crisis 0920.rtf
Amazon Rainforest ‘Close to Irreversible Tipping Point' 1019.rtf
Climate Change Causes Growth Spurt Among Old Trees 0619.rtf
Climate Change Is Hurting Forests' Ability to Filter Agricultural Nitrate Pollution 0419.rtf
Tropical Forest Canopies Get Hotter than Expected, Putting Wildlife at Risk 0818.rtf
Climate Change Is Making Trees Bigger, but Weaker 0818.rtf
American Trees Are Moving West, and No One Knows Why 0517.rtf
Drylands Greener with Forests than Previously Thought 0517.rtf
Unhealthy Forests Affect Distant Ecosystems 1216.rtf
Canada’s Eastern Boreal Forest Could Become a Climate Change Refuge 0916.rtf
Warming Climate Causing Extensive Greening in Canada, Alaska 0616.rtf
China's Success Regrowing Its Forests Has a Flip Side - Deforestation Elsewhere 0316.rtf
China's Forest Conservation Program Shows Proof of Success 0316.rtf
Paris Climate Deal Could ‘Displace Millions of Forest Dwellers' 0216.rtf
Climate Change Means One World’s Death and Another’s Birth 0915.rtf
Burning Olympics Rain Forest Raises Concern about Future 0715.rtf
How Global Warming May Make Forests Shorter and Scrubbier 0515.rtf
Pine Beetle Epidemic Spreads East Across Canada 0315.rtf
California’s Forests - Where Have All the Big Trees Gone? 0115.rtf
Amazon Rainforest Losing Ability to Regulate Climate 1014.rtf
Amazon Deforestation Picking up Pace, Satellite Data Reveals 1014.rtf
Is This the End of Autumn as We Know It? 1014.rtf - focus on timing and brilliance of leaf color changes
Deforestation - Brazil is a Success Story for Conservation 0814.rtf
Climate Change, Coral Reefs, Deforestation and Dengue 0414.rtf
Key Mangrove Forest Faces Major Threat from a Coal Plant 1013.rtf
Global Warming Forecast for Amazon Rain Forest- Dry and Dying 1013.rtf
British Forests Under New Threat from Pests 1013.rtf
Agro Forestry Greatly Improves Food Security 0613.rtf
Climate Change Effects Already Felt in Amazon Rainforest 0413.rtf
Tropical Forests to Be Resilient to Climate Change 0313.rtf
Warming Bringing Big Changes to US Forests 0213.rtf
Is the Amazon Rainforest Drying Out? 1212.rtf
West Africa Forest Biomass Grows Despite Drought 0812.rtf
New GHG Source ID's - Decay in Living Trees 0812.rtf
Columbus Cut Atmospheric CO2 Levels 1011.rtf
Faster Nitrogen Cycle in Forests Slows Global Warming 1011.rtf
Forests Have a Tipping Point 1011.rtf
Tropical Forests Re-Shaped by Climate Change 0211.rtf
Services of Coral Reefs, Forests Worth Trillions 1109.rtf
Trees Advance in Warmer World 0809.rtf
Drought Turns Amazon Rainforest to CO2 Emitter 0309.rtf
Amazon Forest Could Shrink 85% by 2100 0510.pdf of 25 slides
Amazon shows 59% forest loss over 2 centuries.
Left: Sub-polar projections show 12-21% forest gain with +5°C.
Right: Temperate ones show 8% gain to 11% loss.
Section Map: Bio Impacts