Trees, it turns out, are daredevils rather than the fusty old Ents of Tolkien. They’re so invested in growing as big and as fast as possible, that they have little margin of hydraulic error. It doesn’t matter whether they’re scrubby piñon pines in New Mexico or mossed-over giants in the Olympic National Forest. Continue reading Tree Embolisms & the Death of Forests by Climate Change’s Thousand Cuts