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Dr. Amber Jenkins

Amber Jenkins is Editor of NASA's Climate Change website and project manager of the Center for Climate Sciences at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She's passionate about climate change, science and science communication.

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Missing link
Wildfire and pine beetles
September 08, 2010
posted by Dr. Amber Jenkins
17:00 PDT
Missing link

What do fires and mountain pine beetles have in common? More than you might think. In recent years, pine beetle numbers have skyrocketed. So has the risk of wildfires. University of Wisconsin forest ecologist Phil Townsend uses Landsat satellite data to suggest that climate change might be the missing link.

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