Controlling Greenhouse Gases From the Ground Up ; As the Federal Government Dithers, Maine and Mainers Can Take Steps to Slow Climate Change.
Portland Press Herald › May 14, 2006
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The hemlock woolly adelgid is a tiny foreign pest with a big appetite for one of the principal conifers in New England forests.
The adelgid is just one of several damaging invaders that could expand their range due to warming temperatures. Count Lyme disease and West Nile virus among them. Add bumper crops of native pests like black flies and mosquitoes to the climate-change winners.See the full content of this document
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Controlling Greenhouse Gases From the Ground Up ; As the Federal Government Dithers, Maine and Mainers Can Take Steps to Slow Climate Change.
And a new analysis of atmospheric temperatures suggests that, thanks to us, the prospects for the adelgid are looking fine indeed. That could hurt brook trout, which do best in hemlock-dominated watersheds.
Climate-change skeptics had long pointed to an apparent lag between rising ground temperature read...See the full content of this document
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