Believe It Or Not, Forests Migrate — But Not Fast Enough For Climate Change
Forests "are restless things," writes Zach St. George in his new book The Journeys of Trees. He explains how, over millennia, forests creep inch by inch to more hospitable places.
by Ari Shapiro
Jul 28, 2020
2 minutes
We're all familiar with migration: Wildebeests gallop across Africa, Monarch butterflies flit across the Americas ... but did you know that forests migrate, too?
In his new book The Journeys of Trees, science writer Zach St. George explores an agonizingly slow migration, as forests creep inch by inch to more hospitable places.
Individual trees, he writes, are rooted in one spot. But forests? Forests
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