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Sierra Magazine reports on  How climate-change-driven drying of the air is leading to tree deaths the world over.

Temperatures in the Southwest are so hot and dry that scientists are coming up with new terms to describe what’s happening—hotter drought. The combined threats of heat and aridity have been fatal for even the most heat-adapted trees. Scientists have determined that about a third of the strength of the current megadrought is due not to a lack of water but to warming tied to climate change.

Read article at Hotter Temperatures Are Causing Trees to Have Heat Strokes | Sierra Club