Pining for a cold winterOVER the past 14 years, a tiny insect no bigger than a grain of rice has laid waste a swathe of British Columbia's forests so vast that the rust-red wasteland is visible from space. The mountain pine beetle has infested and killed over half the lodgepole pine forest in the centre of the province--an area larger than England. It has rampaged eastwards into northern Alberta for the first time. (It has also made localised attacks on forests in all 11 western American states....
The Economist: The Americas
