Articles tagged as: sequoia national park
Deaths of Old-Growth Trees Double as Western U.S. Warms
January 23, 2009
ARCATA, California, January 22, 2009 (ENS) – Death rates of old-growth trees in western U.S. forests have more than doubled over the past few decades, and the most likely cause of the trend is regional warming, finds new research to be published Friday in the journal “Science.” Led by scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey, [...]
Read More »Farmworkers Sue to Block Use of Four Toxic Pesticides
April 11, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 9, 2008 (ENS) – A coalition of farmworker advocates and environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Friday, seeking to force a halt to the use of four organophosphate pesticides. Some of these pesticides have been detected in California’s rural schoolyards and homes, Sequoia National Park, and [...]
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