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Forest fires are burning ... Although the analysis shows that fire-related tree loss in Brazil spiked in 2016 and has shrunk since, the number of trees lost to wildfires in the past five years ...

“If we’ve lost ... or fire penetrates the thin bark of rain-forest trees, they can develop fatal vascular embolisms or fungal infections long after the flames have passed. Read: Australia ...

Eucalyptus trees cover more than three-quarters of Australia's forested area and almost all of the hundreds ... and carry a fire up the tree and can spread through the forest on the wind.

Some of the world’s most ancient rainforests lie in the north of the Australian ... fire frequency could lead to the loss of these types of forest: There isn’t enough time for the trees ...

At the root of the problem, experts say, is the longtime policy of fire exclusion: keeping fire out of the forest ... we're seeing are killing all or most of the trees," Parks said.

Those fires have historically burned naturally at lower temperatures, killing small trees and thinning the forest. But fire suppression efforts have allowed the forest to grow denser, which when ...

Mark Rasmussen, a forest ... fires is private land. Timber companies may have already lost an amount of timber equal to one or two years of harvests, he said. “These areas are all pretty big tre ...

Eucalyptus trees cover more than three-quarters of Australia's forested area and almost all of the hundreds ... and carry a fire up the tree and can spread through the forest on the wind.