drawbacks
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The Pacific Northwest has suffered far bigger diebacks than this but almost exclusively at the hands of an aggressive bark beetle infestation, a fatal disease or deadly fungal infection.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 30, 2022
It synthesizes the most current evidence on how much warming would risk passing 16 tipping points, triggering polar ice collapses, permafrost thawing, monsoon disruptions, and forest and coral reef diebacks.
From Science Magazine • Sep. 7, 2022
Some recent studies project widespread diebacks by the end of the century, but these have generally relied on modeling to do so.
From Salon • Mar. 14, 2022
Consider, for example, the massive forest diebacks occurring across the West.
From Time Magazine Archive
