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Climate change is already disrupting US forests and coasts – here's what we're seeing at 5 long-term research sites

  • Written by Michael Paul Nelson, Professor of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, Oregon State University
imageScientists have been consistently documenting environmental changes at research sites like this one in the Cascade Mountains for decades.US Forest Service

Record-breaking heat waves and drought have left West Coast rivers lethally hot for salmon, literally cooked millions of mussels and clams in their shells and left forests primed to burn. The...

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