Credit: Laura Faye TenenbaumJust seven months ago, the Woolsey Fire scorched more than 90,000 acres in Los Angeles and Ventura counties. Scientists predict that in a warmer world, these types of consequences will become the new normal — or the new abnormal. Some trees have been burnt to the point of no return, nothing left of them but a pile of charred dust. Here and there, small bits of new green leaves fight their way through. The natural world isn’t calm or peaceful.

Source: Forbes May 28, 2019 18:56 UTC