Long-term droughts are killing Hawaiian forests, finds airborne laser-based study

Mongabay
Nov 27, 2017, 7:59 pm155 pts
A plant without water will wither and, eventually, die. This is easy to observe in the browned leaves of a neglected houseplant, but what happens when an entire forest gets less and less rain over the course of nearly 100 years? To address this question, researchers used satellites and a high-tech airplane to…

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