Science: Gone for good? California’s beetle-killed, carbon-storing pine forests may not come back

Ponderosa pine forests in the Sierra Nevada wiped out by western pine beetles during the 2012-2015 megadrought won’t recover to pre-drought densities, reducing an important storehouse for atmospheric carbon. Read the full article here. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) shares a compilation of news stories including:

• “Gone for good? California’s beetle-killed, carbon-storing pine forests may not come back”; and
• “New imaging technology identifies material defects and composition in unprecedented detail”.

New imaging technology identifies material defects and composition in unprecedented detail

A team of researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed a new Hyperspectral X-ray Imaging (HXI) detector that provides ultra-sensitive elemental and chemical composition analysis for a variety of materials. Read the full article here. Courtesy/LANL