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Canada: Pine beetles contributing to climate change - study

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"Previous studies have shown that climate change allowed the beetle to flourish. But our work shows that beetle infestations in turn feed back into climate," found Holly Maness, who published a paper on titled “The effects of climate change cascade” on this topic in the journal Nature Geoscience, reports Vancouver Sun. Due to milder winters, the bugs do not freeze, and managed to spread rapidly. The government of British Columbia has spent $884 million in the past 11 years on mitigating the impact of the beetles' devastation.

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