conifer
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The spruce bark beetle, or Ips typographus, has been munching its way through the conifer trees of Europe for decades, leaving behind a trail of destruction.
From BBC • Aug. 30, 2025
A footbridge carries you above a developing conifer thicket.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2025
Angiosperms, or flowering plants, grew back faster and denser than the previously ubiquitous conifer relatives had been.
From Slate • Oct. 21, 2024
They also found similarly amplifying feedbacks in other permafrost-relevant processes, like the loss of boreal conifer forests due to fire -- but here, too, only at the local to regional scale.
From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2024
They were still flying over subarctic taiga, a seemingly endless landscape of conifer forest—in English this is sometimes called “snow forest.”
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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