El Niño’s hidden toll on trees emerges years later in Papua New Guinea rainforest

Mongabay
Nov 9, 2026, 6:22 pm122 ptsTrending
When the El Niño drought ended in a remote Papua New Guinea rainforest, the trees did not immediately recover. Many kept dying. That is one of the findings of a recent study of more than 21,000 trees in the Wanang Forest Dynamics Plot, a 50-hectare (124-acre) research site in northern Papua New Guinea.…

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