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Article: Bettle attack!(beetles that eat trees which in turn releases carbon by rotting)
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 1, 2009
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Cars and trucks, homes and factories, even entire cities pump out carbon dioxide 24/7, while forests, grasslands, and oceans try to soak up as much of it as they can. Now a horde of hungry rice-sized beetles is making their job even harder. The beetles are digging away at huge sections of forest pine from Colorado and Wyoming all the way up to British Columbia, Canada, changing these carbon sponges into carbon pumpers! Instead of slowing global warming like most forests do, these beetle-infested woods will soon be speeding it up.
The mountain pine beetle is a North American native. Woodpeckers like to snack on them, and most of the ...