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Take Two

How the tiny Mountain Pine Beetle is contributing to global warming

USDA Forest Service image of a Mountain Pine Beetle.
USDA Forest Service image of a Mountain Pine Beetle.
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Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.

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The mountain pine beetle is the size of a grain of rice, but it has recently destroyed large swaths of forests in the US and Canada.

New research has found that not only is the pest spreading thanks to climate change induced warmer winters, once it kills a forest that area tends to heat up contributing to more overall warming.