Billions of trees gone in the span of a single generation. So many, people like to say, a squirrel could go from New England to Georgia leaping chestnut to chestnut without ever touching the ground.īut then an invasive fungus wiped them out. One of these trees could grow over 100 feet tall and 12 feet wide. The American chestnut towered over these canopies a little over a century ago. But there’s a key player that’s missing, the American chestnut. And a disaster scientist takes on the new movie Don’t Look Up.īut first, if you’ve ever hiked around the forests of the eastern US, you might have noticed all the oaks and the pines and the maples. Later in the hour, we’ll talk about the surfing electrons that contribute to dramatic Northern Light displays.
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