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Believe It or Not, Forests Migrate — but Not Fast Enough for Climate Change
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NPR, July 28, 2020
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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 "are restless things." As old trees die and new ones sprouts up, the forest is — ever so slightly — moving.
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