Conifer forests in the Sierra Nevada mountains in California may be on borrowed time due to climate change Wasim Muklashy/Shutterstock
Climate change is creating “zombie forests” in California. One-fifth of the conifer forests in the Sierra Nevada mountains are in areas that are no longer suitable for them – meaning they may not be able to regrow if wiped out by wildfire or disease – and that number is expected to double by the end of the century.
Avery Hill at the California Academy of Sciences first began investigating the relationship between climate change …
